#  @RnaudBertrand Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand has been discussing China's growing influence and the US's declining position on the global stage. The US's attempts to restrict China's technological advancements, such as export controls on semiconductors, have been met with retaliatory measures from China, including rare earth export controls. This has led to concerns about the impact on global industries, including the European auto industry.
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### Top Social Posts
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"Who could have predicted this 😏 The chairman of Taiwans biggest chip designer Mediateks Tsai Ming-kai says the US' chip bans are good for mainland chipmakers and bad for Taiwan's. https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/us_bans_mediatek/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/us_bans_mediatek/"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1641590350874841088) 2023-03-30T23:56Z 268.3K followers, 250.6K engagements
"He co-authored for the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association that says that if no action is taken Taiwans overall chip market share will slide while Chinas flourishes"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1641590562087391233) 2023-03-30T23:57Z 268.3K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Many assume that China is a top down "central planning" type system. Actually it might be the most decentralized country in the world. Local governments (provinces cities villages etc.) account for a crazy 85% of the country's expenditures. The OECD average is. 33%"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1643446721400426496) 2023-04-05T02:53Z 268.3K followers, 624.9K engagements
"Achievement unlocked Today I became the first person ever to debate Adrian Zenz on China Please watch the video of our debate on the topic "Is the Chinese system better than the American/European one at providing stability prosperity and freedom" https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8eGa6i2DY3A https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8eGa6i2DY3A"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1643819996160696322) 2023-04-06T03:36Z 268.3K followers, 195.4K engagements
"Fascinating that there are two subtle references to coming Taiwan conflict ("avoid any escalation" and "ward off fatalities others want to write for us") and Macron almost suggesting France's role is to help China "ward off" the US on this with the US being the instigator here"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1645287680689999874) 2023-04-10T04:48Z 268.3K followers, 16.6K engagements
"All in all it couldn't be clearer now with this and Macron's earlier communication that he sees France as China's foremost ally in the West to counter US-led efforts to contain the country. It truly is a seismic geopolitical event the West now has a major fracture re China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1645287683860881409) 2023-04-10T04:48Z 268.3K followers, 23.5K engagements
"This is huge European Council president Charles Michel : "European leaders are becoming increasingly favorable toward French President Emmanuel Macron's push for 'strategic autonomy' away from the United States" https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-warming-up-to-macrons-strategic-autonomy-push-says-charles-michel/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-warming-up-to-macrons-strategic-autonomy-push-says-charles-michel/"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1645948412305752064) 2023-04-12T00:34Z 286.6K followers, 926.5K engagements
"That's bad news this guy is even more of an extremist than Tsai when it comes to Taiwan independence. But in a way it makes the choice clear for the Taiwanese electorate at the next election between DPP and KMT: are you for conflict with the mainland or not BREAKING: Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has just chosen Vice President @ChingteLai as its nominee for the [----] presidential race. Image: Office of the President https://t.co/vS4P7yJxMR BREAKING: Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has just chosen Vice President @ChingteLai as its nominee for the [----] presidential"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1646073752957124609) 2023-04-12T08:52Z 268.4K followers, 46.5K engagements
"This is incredible. This is one of the main China "experts" in France who gives her definition for what a China expert is: you can only be one if you're considered hostile by China. Those China likes are worthless "amateurs" and "idiots". The sheer state of sinology in France 🤦 Un indice : tous ceux que le Parti communiste qualifie de vieux amis de la Chine (traduction : idiot (ou intress) utile) et qui ses reprsentants ne dclarent pas vous devriez mieux tudier la Chine. Les professionnels se reconnaissent au qualificatif de soi-disant Un indice : tous ceux que le Parti communiste qualifie"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1646457162691153920) 2023-04-13T10:15Z 345.9K followers, 34K engagements
""Big drop in German exports to China" in part because "Germany is now considered to be allies with the US" resulting in forecast that it will be the "weakest performer among the worlds big economies this year". Stellar performance Mrs Baerbock"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1661526461130604544) 2023-05-25T00:15Z 183.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow easily one of the best speeches I've heard on US-China by a Chinese official impressive "I still believe that a sound and stable China-US relationship is in the interest of both countries. It is also the shared expectation of the international community and a major"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1661583944696082432) 2023-05-25T04:04Z 131.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Translation: "We want to do IP theft with complete impunity""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1664143744311103488) 2023-06-01T05:36Z 345.9K followers, 49.3K engagements
"Austin unironically says that "the US is doubling down" on encircling China military because there is "no room for intimidation bullying or coercion". https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3222826/shangri-la-dialogue-us-defence-chief-lloyd-austin-doubles-down-security-alliance-push https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3222826/shangri-la-dialogue-us-defence-chief-lloyd-austin-doubles-down-security-alliance-push"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1664817023577214978) 2023-06-03T02:11Z 252.1K followers, 162.8K engagements
""We're not trying to create a NATO in the Indo-Pacific" said Lloyd Austin yesterday whilst NATO continues its expansion to Asia opening a Japan office and working hard on "interoperability" between NATO and Taiwan (src: 🔽 Maybe he should have added ".since it's NATO itself that's going to do the job." 🤷♂ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3222748/us-help-taiwan-access-natos-link-22-tactical-data-system-could-boost-islands-status-bloc https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3222748/us-help-taiwan-access-natos-link-22-tactical-data-system-could-boost-islands-status-bloc"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1665197792921534465) 2023-06-04T03:24Z 250.9K followers, 14.9K engagements
"Incredible and maybe even unprecedented answer by Arnaud Montebourg - former French Minister of Economy - to the question "what method do the Americans use to wage economic warfare against us" Here's the translation (by me): "They use military tools. First of all they use all the listening and intelligence systems that they built on after 9/11. They don't listen to terrorists.well they certainly do and that's very good.but they listen to foreign companies that compete with theirs. So it's very simple it became clear in [----] when Snowden revealed that there were [--] million conversations and"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1665370246126125060) 2023-06-04T14:49Z 253.8K followers, 1.9M engagements
"Wow this is exceedingly rare. The immense Noam Chomsky was given a whole [--] minutes on Piers Morgan to explain how the US is provoking China into war and he does a brilliant job at it. An absolute must-watch if you want to understand what's happening. He explains how the US is 1) "abandoning the One-China policy" that has "held the peace in the region for [--] years" 2) increasingly "encircling China with a ring of sentinel states armed with advanced precision weapons aimed at China" and 3) waging "a war to prevent China from developing" all the while gaslighting the world into believing it's"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1666987619111297024) 2023-06-09T01:56Z 287.1K followers, 2.1M engagements
"This is incredible. Franois Fillion former Prime Minister of France (2007-2012) explains during a recent audition at the French National Assembly that the large majority of foreign interference in France is committed by the Americans. Here is the exact translation of what he says (by me): "Have I encountered foreign interference in my political life and particularly when I was in government Yes I have encountered it. Most of the time they came from a friendly and allied country called the United States. I am not passing judgement: your commission is working on foreign interference. I am"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1668075665999138816) 2023-06-12T02:00Z 310.7K followers, 828.9K engagements
"I'm aware this narrative fits the current zeitgeist but it's actually standard Chinese protocol. Here are Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton both welcomed in respectively [----] and [----] in Beijing by Xie Feng at the time China's Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for North America which is the same role as the official who welcomed Blinken. As a Washington Post journalist you'd think it'd be your job to check an information's accuracy before tweeting it 🤷 Low level official met Blinken at the airport. May be the start of Beijings plan to humiliate him. Lets"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1670362509478600705) 2023-06-18T09:27Z 350.1K followers, 411.3K engagements
"Literally took [--] hours for insults to start again 🙄 What's the point of sending Blinken to Beijing to cool things down if you're going to insult Xi literally the day after That's frankly beyond me. 🤷♂ US President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator adding that Xi was very embarrassed when a Chinese balloon was blown off course over the US recently https://t.co/3oknuviktG https://t.co/Pk5nUgOZFu US President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator adding that Xi was very embarrassed when a Chinese balloon was blown off course over the US recently"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1671366360734244864) 2023-06-21T03:56Z 286.8K followers, 354.4K engagements
"Could Twitter offer a feature where I can automatically blocks all those people who call themselves "NAFO" and have a Shiba Inu dog as their profile picture These people are beyond toxic. I thought they were supposed to be focused on Ukraine which I barely every tweet about"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1671903328480149504) 2023-06-22T15:32Z 183.2K followers, 54.1K engagements
""1000 years of foreign rule" 👀 I take it that Modi then believes that the Taj Mahal the red fort in Delhi Fatehpur Sikri Jaipur's Hawa Mahal etc. were all built by foreign invaders 🤔 In his address to Congress Modi speaking in English with a teleprompter repeated many of the elements of the joint statement but added controversially that India had won its freedom after "1000 years of foreign rule". https://t.co/mTLWCvLcEB In his address to Congress Modi speaking in English with a teleprompter repeated many of the elements of the joint statement but added controversially that India had won"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1672265750579642368) 2023-06-23T15:29Z 338.6K followers, 49.7K engagements
"So. last week"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1672828307346436098) 2023-06-25T04:45Z 142.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@RandiSi98566178 @lcbrooks31 Downstream from the Yalong river is only China. The river starts in China ends in the sea in China. What an utterly ridiculous take"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1673734639515766785) 2023-06-27T16:46Z 183.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Blinken says that the US doesn't seek to contain China just to prevent them from "gettingtechnology that they may turn around and use against us" or be used "for repressive purposes" like "AI". Which is the very definition of containing China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674202961453662208) 2023-06-28T23:47Z 164K followers, [----] engagements
"Extraordinary statement on Taiwan by Bob Carr former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs: "If the worst thing that faces the people of Taiwan would be what prevails in Hong Kong today then we haven't got a cause for war. I'd like to see the National Security Law no longer"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674235451467763713) 2023-06-29T01:56Z 182.9K followers, [----] engagements
""Saying it out loud" moment on the quid pro quo Europe faces wrt the U.S. and China. This is Noah Barkin from U.S. think tank Rhodium Group explaining that if Europe doesn't do America's bidding on China the U.S. will stop defending Europe and punish them economically"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674240298455830528) 2023-06-29T02:16Z 183.8K followers, [----] engagements
"No matter your politics closing people's bank accounts is something we should all be dead set against. It's a happening to more and more people: the truckers in Canada many independent journalists anyone even remotely connected to countries sanctioned by the West public"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674422447989489666) 2023-06-29T22:36Z 183.2K followers, 145.7K engagements
"@JamesSm71937524 I've seen dozens of examples recently. It's not about his case specifically. And he'll never know the reason by the way they don't have to tell him"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674429900735004672) 2023-06-30T01:15Z 183.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The truth is that yes the Chinese people want to be liked and so does China as a country. They want the world to like their culture their traditions their literature their art etc. And they deeply resent the extreme paranoiac level of hatred China gets. Is that evil"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674438426752618497) 2023-06-30T02:10Z 183.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This comes after Biden himself admitted the balloon was blown off course and therefore never meant to be over the US in the first place. So once more this whole episode was a ridiculously overblown collective paranoia"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674579429635543041) 2023-06-30T00:43Z 183.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I agree with this 100%. Climate change is the one thing most likely to change global public opinions on China. The world will wake up one day and realize China managed to completely transition their [---] billion people country to an "ecological civilization" with zero emissions in record time. They'll then take a look at their own country take a look at ever higher temperatures and ever more frequent climate catastrophes and realize China is the only country competent and capable enough to lead us out of this mess"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674585583677751296) 2023-06-30T01:08Z 182.9K followers, 97.4K engagements
"@Meow_Meow_2020 Thanks will take a look"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674586574196199425) 2023-06-30T01:12Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@CharlesBloom_WA Huh Not sure what you're talking about to be honest. There is no "social credit score" in China it's pretty much entirely a Western myth and it certainly has absolutely nothing to do with what you write on social media"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674597069569536000) 2023-06-30T01:53Z 183K followers, [--] engagements
"@CharlesBloom_WA I lived during [--] years in China and travelled in [--] Chinese provinces: never came across this "social credit score". I also use Chinese social media daily and see no trace of it there either. The only thing that does exist is that you can be put on a "blacklist" by a tribunal if"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674608505872072704) 2023-06-30T02:46Z 183K followers, [---] engagements
"We're truly witnessing a radicalization on both sides in France. This is an unreal communiqu by the main French police unions essentially declaring France is in a civil war and that the police is in the "resistance" against the government. This is the translation: "Now that's enough. Facing these savage hordes asking for calm is no longer enough it must be imposed Restoring the republican order and putting the apprehended beyond the capacity to harm should be the only political signals to give. In the face of such exactions the police family must stand together. Our colleagues like the"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674959206422806528) 2023-07-01T01:52Z 286.1K followers, 6.3M engagements
"@JuteRaider Just for info I will block all racist and uninformed commenters like this guy. First of all like it or not these "immigrants" are French in their immense majority. Most often for the 2nd or 3rd generation 🔽 since the bulk of the immigrants from North Africa came in the 60s"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1674971631729639424) 2023-07-01T04:15Z 150.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Riots spreading to Lausanne Switzerland. Which is mind-blowing to me: I lived during [--] years in Lausanne and never witnessed as much as a single protest"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1675394868812849152) 2023-07-02T06:43Z [--] followers, 252K engagements
"US presidential candidate Marianne Williamson when asked about reports of China helping train Cuban troops: "Do you know how many military bases we have surrounding China [---]. Americans need to wake up." I actually didn't know it was SO many. Insane"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1676018705535483906) 2023-07-04T00:02Z [--] followers, 458K engagements
"Wow he is even more insane than I thought. Here is Lai Ching-te (presidential candidate for Taiwan's independentist party DPP) 4-point plan "to preserve peace in the Taiwan strait": 1) More weapons bigger army 2) Decouple economy from China 3) Reinforce alliance with the West 4) "Steady and principled cross-strait leadership" whatever that means. He goes on to imply he rejects the [----] consensus and the one China framework since "Mr. Xi himself has called it a road map for unification". To sum up: more weapons reduce peaceful economic exchanges reinforce alliance with China's adversaries and"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1676765596942467072) 2023-07-06T01:30Z 252.4K followers, 210.7K engagements
"Yesterday we had a short layover in Beijing where we jumped on the opportunity to visit the National Museum of China where they keep some of the most precious treasures of ancient China. A few items we saw 🧵"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677892050078035968) 2023-07-09T04:07Z 183.7K followers, 130.2K engagements
"The famous sculpture of a Han dynasty dwarf "Pai You" (jester)"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677892065596944385) 2023-07-09T04:07Z 183K followers, [----] engagements
"An imperial Han dynasty jade burial suit"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677892101772836867) 2023-07-09T04:07Z 251K followers, 12.7K engagements
"One of the famous horses and soldiers from the Qin dynasty terracotta army in Xi'an"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677892117891534849) 2023-07-09T04:07Z 259.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Another smaller Qin dynasty "terracotta army""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677892310292652032) 2023-07-09T04:07Z 259.9K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Some of the otherworldly bronze masks from the Shang dynasty (3500 years old) unearthed at Sanxingdui"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677892662484140032) 2023-07-09T04:11Z 183.8K followers, [----] engagements
"This is probably the future of vending machines: seen in the street in Beijing a couple of self driving ice cream vending machines that presumably move around based on where there's a higher concentration of customers are at any given moment"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677909242970292227) 2023-07-09T05:15Z 182.9K followers, 83.7K engagements
"Little known fact about China: it's allowed to swim in pretty much all rivers in the middle of cities like those guys I just saw in Shenyang the capital of Liaoning province. I've seen it all over China including in Shanghai"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677953679272611841) 2023-07-09T08:19Z 159K followers, 48.1K engagements
"@fractious_012 The water looks quite clean you can see some fishes swimming around"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677958776006283264) 2023-07-10T07:54Z 152.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I actually missed this a lot when I was outside China: donkey meat burger. It's a staple of northern Chinese cuisine and it's super good. The bun is also very special: a sort of ultra-crispy puff pastry"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1677996027843080192) 2023-07-09T11:35Z 183.6K followers, 34.8K engagements
"@RealCalories1 Is it My bad if so"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678004321722728448) 2023-07-09T11:33Z 137.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Absolutely extraordinary statement by former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating: "Exporting that malicious poison that is NATO into Asia would be akin to Asia welcoming the plague upon itself . Of all the people on the international stage the supreme fool among them is"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678010578529579008) 2023-07-17T17:52Z 183.5K followers, 315.9K engagements
"US politicians really need to stop using this line because I don't know a single Chinese person who buys it it sounds insanely hypocritical. When they try to cut China's access to the latest generation chips is that going to impact the Chinese government or the people 🤷♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678028582680162305) 2023-07-09T14:13Z 183.5K followers, 104.3K engagements
"You can see her at the Hunan Provincial Museum in Changsha with most of the content of the Mawangdui tombs. Easily one of the most extraordinary museums I've seen in China: enormous amount of extremely well preserved [----] years old royal artefacts including silk clothes so"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678257449109970944) 2023-07-10T04:21Z 183.4K followers, 12.1K engagements
"Chinese scholar Wu Xinbo: "Yellens trip won't result in a substantive improvement in relations unless it was accompanied by changes in the Biden administrations policies toward China. So far we havent seen any sign that Biden will rethink his economic policy toward China.""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678269074265219072) 2023-07-10T05:14Z 183K followers, 29.7K engagements
""We're not surrounding you to surround you" 🤦♂ As always imagine if the shoe was on the other foot: if China had [---] bases surrounding the US (literally) formed military alliances with say Mexico and Canada and Xi went on TV saying "we're not doing that to surround you merely"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678282178030088192) 2023-07-10T06:48Z 183K followers, 166K engagements
"You've heard of the forbidden city in Beijing but did you know there's also one in Shenyang Liaoning province It's the only other one in China. Built by the Manchus when Shenyang was their capital it later became a key imperial palace when they conquered the whole of China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678301453830750208) 2023-07-10T17:17Z 137.1K followers, 106K engagements
""US chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival" Maybe they should have thought about that BEFORE launching a war against China's chip industry. 🤦♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678405487191048193) 2023-07-10T18:04Z 183.5K followers, 23.6K engagements
"I remember a time not so long ago when India was one of the leaders - and one of the founders - of the Non-Aligned Movement. It now seems to position itself as Washington's ally in preserving its hegemony. Incredible how countries can change"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678422990642466816) 2023-07-10T15:42Z 137K followers, 95.7K engagements
""Ukraine is a model for Taiwan" 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂ Are they listening to themselves If I was Taiwan I'd study Ukraine long and hard as a anti-model of what to AVOID. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/ukrainian-strategy-has-become-a-model-taiwanese-beef-up-military-to-face-china-threat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/ukrainian-strategy-has-become-a-model-taiwanese-beef-up-military-to-face-china-threat"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678563114508333056) 2023-07-11T00:33Z 268.4K followers, 53.1K engagements
"@jmlaplaza Taiwan isn't a state it's part of China and recognized as such by the US and the entire international community. As for Ukraine I literally just wrote that it's an anti-model so by definition I think what's happening should have been avoided"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678571032712728582) 2023-07-11T03:01Z 183.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@PeterHarrisCSU @pstAsiatech I wholly disagree. The more Taiwan beefs up its military which will unavoidably imply an ever closer military cooperation with the US the bigger the security dilemma and thus the risk of war. Which is what happened in Ukraine"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678575546152910849) 2023-07-11T01:23Z 183.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Every year in China we go do this incredibly comprehensive health test. They have a number of private testing companies that do this I typically use iKang. These are my tests this morning: I need to go to [--] different rooms (blood test room IRM room ECG room etc.) where"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678594615983878144) 2023-07-11T02:51Z 182.9K followers, 43.7K engagements
"Fascinating: an article by Jrgen Kurz one of the founders of the German green party who is extremely critical of his party's policy on China. He's especially negative on green foreign minister Baerbock whom he says has zero understanding of China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678613032887521282) 2023-07-11T03:55Z 183K followers, 75K engagements
"The guy gets it: "We stylize China as a great threat to our democracy and imagine that the Chinese are threatening us.In return we want to explain to China what is going wrong in their country and believe that we can do transform them.Do we seriously believe that from far"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678613797479776257) 2023-07-11T03:55Z 164K followers, 20.6K engagements
"In particular he makes the very correct point that from a Green point of view it makes zero sense to treat China as an adversary like the German foreign minister does: "From a green point of view China is a reliable partner in the fight against climate change with whom we"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678615622266277888) 2023-07-11T04:42Z 130K followers, 22.6K engagements
"@DannyChean1 In order to justify hostile actions against China to their domestic audiences so it should still bother you 😄"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678620077636321280) 2023-07-11T05:29Z 183.4K followers, [----] engagements
"We were lucky enough to be granted a private tour of the BMW Shenyang factory which produces one third () of all BMWs worldwide. Extremely impressive: 95% automation with about [----] robots on the production line (still even with this level of automation this place has [----] workers). For obvious reasons I couldn't take pictures of the production line but it really felt like stepping in the future"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678691846992859136) 2023-07-11T09:04Z 359K followers, 150.5K engagements
"@RaphaelVerove In this case I got connected with the CEO who kindly arranged the tour. The factory is open for public tours though (on Fridays and Saturdays I believe) so no need to be so lucky 😊"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678705807435907072) 2023-07-11T10:36Z 140.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Also quite a sign they're expanding that factory by A LOT in fact from what I understood they're more than doubling it. Which ought to tell you something about how major German firms see the future with regards to China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678709454487838720) 2023-07-11T10:14Z 268.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"@Abdul30232 Funny how only China developed such advanced industry and no other country even in the West. Maybe because it in fact wasn't "a gift" by the West but a homegrown effort by China 🤷♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678738105317330946) 2023-07-11T12:09Z 183.5K followers, [--] engagements
"A very interesting piece of information is that Jrgen Kurz the author here and one of the founders of the German Green Party now lives in China with a wife from Xinjiang Makes it even more incomprehensible that his own party is so incompetent on China (which is the point"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678749078098948096) 2023-07-11T13:53Z 183.4K followers, 29.4K engagements
"@pmacaverse Of course it's creating tensions with Vietnam that's undeniable. After is that reason enough for China to drop its claims That's another question. China has other interests to take into account here: military security food security (for fishing rights) etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678754910412890112) 2023-07-11T13:20Z 183.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@apigeonenjoyer My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor so don't expect me to be bullish on the German far right 😉"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678755284922306561) 2023-07-11T17:53Z 182.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@livingandcoding Yes of course meeting my wife (we met as university classmates in Switzerland) was why I got interested in the country in the first place"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678755960712744960) 2023-07-11T13:52Z 183.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Very good read "If all you have is a hammer the whole world looks like a nail and Nato has by far the worlds biggest hammer. Even though it encompasses just over 10% of the worlds population it accounts for 55% of global military spending; it is by its very nature unable"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678775241018052611) 2023-07-11T16:28Z 183.8K followers, 29.5K engagements
"I can't avoid being amazed by the amount of flexibility and efficiency in Chinese administrative procedures. People really go the extra mile to help you which happens with no other country's public administration (at least in my experience). During our current trip my younger"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678969680646778881) 2023-07-12T03:52Z 183.6K followers, 440.4K engagements
"Ambiance. Seen during a stroll in a park in Shenyang: a group of elderly folks learning Xinjiang dance"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678971215128719362) 2023-07-12T04:03Z 183.7K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Visiting Beiling park in Shenyang a UNESCO world heritage site as it is the tomb of Hong Taiji (Emperor Taizong) the first emperor of the Qing dynasty. The tomb and surrounding park cover a very modest area of [-------] square metres 🤭"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678975297574834177) 2023-07-12T03:51Z 268.5K followers, 26.6K engagements
"@MagisterIR Hehe could be. But they also did similar things for me in the past and "cute" doesn't exactly fit me 😋"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1678997295323545601) 2023-07-12T06:20Z 183.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Discovering the RV in which we'll spend the next [--] weeks touring the North East of China 😊 Looks like it'll do the job"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679051464055066625) 2023-07-13T00:04Z 182.5K followers, 15.6K engagements
"@booger9922 I've lived [--] years in China and the only time I've had to go to the police station was when I rented a new apartment to register the rental which only happened twice"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679061561359597568) 2023-07-12T13:35Z 183.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@TripInChina Yes of course"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679106135465562113) 2023-07-12T15:19Z 182.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@ShanthiRF Yes tweeted about it extraordinary"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679107710409912321) 2023-07-12T15:57Z 183K followers, [--] engagements
"@BraneRunner No she's Han"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679122642329116674) 2023-07-12T13:37Z 130.7K followers, [---] engagements
"How can you agree to "de-risk" when you don't even know what it means I mean it's literally crazy when you think about it: taking [---] million Europeans onboard a policy no-one has any clue about that's nothing more than a mere slogan. This type of politics leads to disaster:"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679174138299305984) 2023-07-12T17:54Z 183.4K followers, 95K engagements
"@mariocavolo Yes very beautiful place We'll have another opportunity I'm sure"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679175685741608960) 2023-07-12T17:08Z 183.7K followers, [----] engagements
"That's big and would be an immense victory for Huawei after U.S. attempts to kill the company: looks like Huawei will return to the 5G smartphone industry this year with 7nm chips produced domestically"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679301389519028225) 2023-07-13T02:08Z 182.6K followers, 16.9K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV trip in Northern China Today we drove from MeiHeKou to the Changbai mountains right on the border with North Korea. In fact one of the mountains called Paektu is shared with North Korea and is sacred in Korean mythology. On top of it lies a volcano crater lake that's believed to be the birthplace of Koreans. We might go see it tomorrow or the day after if the weather permits. In the meanwhile we've stopped in a blueberry farm. This area is extremely famous for its blueberries so we kind of have to try some"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679770558588944385) 2023-07-14T08:31Z 329.4K followers, 27.8K engagements
"Crazy: the EU has apparently decided to directly hire American officials for top EU jobs 🤦♂ Worse this is a person who'd be tasked to regulate US companies she's herself worked for However except for France everyone seems to find this normal 🤷♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1679887243702583296) 2023-07-18T22:54Z 183.6K followers, 94.9K engagements
""Chinese Scientists Are Leaving the United States. Its absolutely devastating so many of the researchers that the United States depends on in the advanced technology field are from China" The backlash of anti-China hysteria"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1680029250416410624) 2023-07-15T02:04Z 183K followers, 178.7K engagements
"Climbing Tianchi mountain (also called Paektu) which belongs to both China and North Korea. There's a volcano crater lake up there that in Korean mythology is the birthplace of the Korean people. Sadly it's very foggy so not sure we'll be able to see it 😅"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1680101264674398208) 2023-07-15T06:25Z 329.3K followers, 35.1K engagements
""Some question her story" Yes anyone with an ounce of common sense who hasn't been so brainwashed they can't distinguish obvious lies anymore"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1680760609196081154) 2023-07-20T01:45Z 183.5K followers, 87.5K engagements
"This is insane gaslighting. This year alone China will install *twice* the solar capacity than the US has installed *in its entire history*. And I'm not even speaking about wind turbines nuclear stations electric cars etc. The truth is that China takes more "significant"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1680773381069873153) 2023-07-17T07:33Z 183.8K followers, 469.8K engagements
"You often see people exercise with a whip in public parks in China. It's actually quite a good exercise for the upper body"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1680776529217994753) 2023-07-17T03:55Z 183.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV trip in Northern China Today we drove from ErDaoBaiHe to Tumen a border town with North Korea. I wouldn't be surprised if I was the first foreigner certainly the first European who drove a RV to this place There are of course many Korean ethnic"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1680846080920133639) 2023-07-17T11:36Z 183.4K followers, 37.8K engagements
"On the way during our RV road trip around Northern China we just drove alongside the China-North Korean border (delimited by the Tumen river). Across Tumen city in China we could see a North Korean town and a railway bridge that links both countries"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1680892196172726272) 2023-07-17T10:48Z 329.5K followers, 13.3K engagements
"I see so many churches in this area of northwestern China (like this one I just saw in Yanji) basically every town seems to have one. My guess is that it's because it an area with a large Korean ethnic population and they're majoritarily Christian"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1681476172566364160) 2023-07-19T02:55Z 183K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Make it make sense: yesterday Jake Sullivan bashed China because it didn't take "significant substantial action" on renewables and today John Kerry hailed China's "incredible job" on renewables 🤷♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1681529203349671937) 2023-07-19T07:42Z 183.4K followers, 70K engagements
"One of China's favorite leisure activities: dress up in traditional clothes and go to an ancient touristic site to take pictures. Like here in Anji Jilin province where people dress up like old Korean royalty to visit "MingZu Yuan" a park that re-creates traditional Chinese"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1681551768126377984) 2023-07-19T18:17Z 182.5K followers, 26.2K engagements
"A perfect example of this is the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act" by the US which forbids the import of any product from Xinjiang. Little problem: half the world's polysilicon the base material for solar panels comes from Xinjiang. So this act alone almost"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1681640744048820224) 2023-07-19T20:43Z 183.7K followers, 39.8K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northern China Today we drove from Yanji to Changchun the capital of Jilin province. The main reason we came here is to visit the last palace of Pu Yi the last emperor of China. The palace's official name is "the imperial palace museum of the puppet manchurian state" because Pu Yi infamously resided here when he allied himself with the Japanese invaders who had established the "Manchukuo" puppet state in North East China. Let's visit the place"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1681896567912136705) 2023-07-20T05:19Z 254.2K followers, 90.9K engagements
""The tectonics of the trans-Himalayan relationship are shifting. Recent border bloodshed suggests mounting hostility. But blossoming economic ties tell a different story that could trouble America." The Economist admitting peace is troubling for the US"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1681920659683971072) 2023-07-21T04:09Z 183.5K followers, 24.5K engagements
"Pierre Rosanvallon probably the greatest living expert on democracy says a democracy has [--] essential elements: 1) that those who govern truly represent the people 2) that there's trust by the people in those who govern them 3) that the decisions taken by those who govern are"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1682799981928026112) 2023-07-22T18:15Z 183.3K followers, 172.4K engagements
"Chip war update: not enough skilled workers in the US to build A SINGLE plant"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1682940175406743552) 2023-07-24T01:49Z 182.5K followers, 19.4K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China Today we drove from Harbin to the outskirts of Qiqihaer. We came here to visit a natural reserve with the highest red-crowned crane (a magnificent bird) population in the world. We arrived at 5pm so a bit late to visit the"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1683414033804951552) 2023-07-31T11:29Z 183.6K followers, 23K engagements
"Western leaders would do well to study the Yin Yang theory: if you develop the Yin of NATO in Asia you'll inevitably get an opposing Yang response"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1683647764541087744) 2023-07-25T06:29Z [--] followers, 17.5K engagements
"Ola Kaellenius CEO of Mercedes-Benz emphasizes the importance of China for the company describing it as a "home away from home". In other unrelated news Annalena Baerbock has been admitted to the emergency room for an acute cardiac arrest 😏"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1684957855349387264) 2023-07-28T16:12Z 150.1K followers, 12K engagements
"The biggest lesson here is on the extraordinary influence of US government policy on public opinions. The data couldn't be clearer: it is in [----] when Trump decided to start the "trade war" stop engagement with China and start a confrontational policy (all continued by Biden)"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1685114805009686529) 2023-07-29T02:27Z 164K followers, 92.3K engagements
"@shetlerjones They form opinion based on what the media tell them to think and what Western media have been writing on China for a few years has been overwhelmingly negative driven by stories that originated in the US predominantly by the US government"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1685180801766600704) 2023-07-29T07:17Z 183.5K followers, [---] engagements
"100% misinformation. I've been driving for years everywhere in China (actually I'm currently on my third week of a road trip in the Northeast) and I've never encountered this. Heck I've never encountered this "social credit score" that these people keep speaking about either"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1685268727963832320) 2023-07-30T11:39Z 182.9K followers, 229.9K engagements
"Quite embarrassing: Blinken and Lloyd Austin went to Australia to participate to a large scale joint US-Australia military exercise. which ended when a MRH-90 helicopter crashed into the ocean leaving four crew members missing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/29/australia-us-taipan-helicopter-crash/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/29/australia-us-taipan-helicopter-crash/"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1685469878776639488) 2023-07-30T01:58Z 252.4K followers, 63.8K engagements
"Absolutely incredible experience yesterday during our RV road trip in Northeast China: we were lucky enough to spend the evening and the night in the forest with some of the last reindeer-raising Ewengkis. There are less than [---] of them remaining in the country (there are about"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1685914874826928128) 2023-07-31T09:33Z 130.3K followers, 86.7K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and we've now reached Erguna county on the border with Russia. the home of the most unusual minority ethnic group in China: Chinese Russians They look Russian follow Russian customs but they speak Chinese with a Northeast"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1685920804549300224) 2023-07-31T11:00Z 130.4K followers, 214.4K engagements
"This is a job that probably only exists in China: itinerant honey seller who move around with their bees depending on the season. This is in Inner Mongolia where this particular seller spends his summers. We asked him and he moves [--] to [--] times a year chasing flowers typically ending up in Yunnan during the winters. There are actually quite a few of these honey sellers in the Chinese countryside: if you are in a place with many flowers at a given moment you're more likely than not to see some We bought a big 1kg pot of honey for RMB [--] (about $7). Some of the best honey I've ever tried"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1685958228100993024) 2023-07-31T10:18Z 207.6K followers, 187K engagements
"The French approach vs the British approach 🤭 Who does better in the end: those who don't fear competition and partnerships or those who do 🤔"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1685993271221481472) 2023-07-31T16:49Z 155K followers, 14.6K engagements
""NATOs expansion into Asia is the mother of bad ideas. NATO merely expanding further and further into eastern Europe was a subject of controversy. All of a sudden the alliance is pushing to leap into Asia and theres hardly even a debate""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1686056192697921536) 2023-08-01T06:00Z 136.9K followers, 18.2K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and we're now literally at the border with Russia on the Argun river having driven all the way from the border with North Korea [--] weeks ago. Interestingly this place is also the location of the world's largest Ying-Yang"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1686254150999502848) 2023-08-01T06:25Z 183.7K followers, 18.1K engagements
"We're currently visiting a farm in China and I think it's VERY far from how people would typically imagine a Chinese farm to be. This is maybe the 30th or so farm that I visit in China and my consistent experience has been that the degree of care and the quality is insanely high"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1686292972558852096) 2023-08-01T18:50Z 183.1K followers, 127.6K engagements
"Believe it or not this is the border between China and Russia. Undoubtedly one of the most scenic borderlands in the world. We're driving between Shiwei and Heitoushan in Inner Mongolia alongside the Argun river which delimits the border between both countries. And it's all"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1686584858456498176) 2023-08-02T09:24Z 183.5K followers, 196.7K engagements
"Want to see what an amusement park in Inner Mongolia looks like Like this 😊"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1686657654184394752) 2023-08-02T08:38Z 183.1K followers, 15.2K engagements
"Absolutely extraordinary for the CEO of the US's largest weapons manufacturer to publicly advocate for the US and China to "get along". That actually makes me somewhat optimistic if he's being honest (a very big if)"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1686707070509400065) 2023-08-02T16:52Z 182.9K followers, 57.6K engagements
"There you go: WSJ admits sanctions failed to significantly dent Russia's economy. Give it a few more months and they'll admit that not only they failed but were counterproductive: damaging Europe's economy more than Russia's. Or was that the objective 🤔 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-attacked-russias-economy-the-result-is-another-stalemate-99ec913b https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-attacked-russias-economy-the-result-is-another-stalemate-99ec913b"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1687294332557295617) 2023-08-04T02:48Z 268.3K followers, 67K engagements
"Seen just now in Zhalai Nuo'Er on the Chinese border with Russia. This is actually very interesting. I've now been on China's borders with quite a few countries (Russia Mongolia N. Korea Myanmar Laos etc.) and it's a common pattern: the culture of the bordering country is celebrated with buildings in the country's style museums about the country's culture restaurants with the country's food countless shows about the country's traditions etc. And it's immensely popular: literally millions of Chinese tourists travel to these places to learn about their neighbors. We've been to a good half a"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1687342897363099648) 2023-08-04T06:01Z 158.5K followers, 231K engagements
"At this stage Australia should consider applying to be the 51st state"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1687343545487851520) 2023-08-04T07:29Z 183.7K followers, 31.8K engagements
"This is common sense but sadly it looks like the US has already decided containing China is more important than climate change. They funnily try to tell China "collaborate with us on climate change while we otherwise try to destroy you" and then blame China for being like "wait"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1687700650195636225) 2023-08-05T06:55Z 183.5K followers, 27.2K engagements
"She's doing her very best to become the personnification of what's worst with American politicis: looking for an external ennemy blaming foreigners for America's problems appalling racism etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1687783389922004993) 2023-08-05T11:11Z 182.9K followers, 77.6K engagements
"One especially significant aspect here is that if that goes through US taxpayers would be funding arms supply to Taiwan for the first time as opposed to Taiwan buying the weapons. The justification being that this "has been so successful in Ukraine" 🤦♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1687849678396940288) 2023-08-05T15:34Z 183.4K followers, 16K engagements
"Incredible numbers: "Nearly [-----] scientists of Chinese descent who began their careers in the US have left for other countries with an accelerated departure rate in the last [--] years coinciding with the launch of the China Initiative in 2018""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1687852799080673280) 2023-08-05T15:47Z 182.9K followers, 117K engagements
"Former national board member of the Australia China Business Council: "Australia military integrationwith the US has made it a client state of the US. Australiais now a by-product of US policy rather than as a relatively independent entity.""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1687993434781708288) 2023-08-06T01:06Z 183.8K followers, 22.2K engagements
"This is absolutely hilarious: Rishi Sunak inaugurated a 4bn "India-UK" battery factory with Tata but. looks like all the battery technology is provided by Chinese firm AESC which they tried to keep secret 🤭"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688010103038054401) 2023-08-06T02:12Z 183K followers, 91.1K engagements
"Wow exceptionally strong words from a key South Korean lawmaker who chaired a ruling party committee on South Koreas semiconductor competitiveness until early this year: If Washington continues to try to punish other nations and to pass bills and implement America First policies in an unpredictable manner other countries could form an alliance against the US. The US should consider more of humanitys common values. Appearing to use its strength as a weapon is not desirable. The more the US sanctions China the harder China will try to make rapid technological progress. China will provide more"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688210622939537408) 2023-08-06T15:29Z 183.6K followers, 488.3K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and we're in a very special place: Kanjur Temple one of the main Tibetan Buddhism temples in this region. Many people probably don't know this but Tibetan Buddhism since the Yuan dynasty is a very widespread religion among ethnic Mongols. This place is incredibly remote so barely any tourists ever come here it's pretty much only locals and monks. One interesting particularity of this place besides that it's stunning with [--] temples inside is that it's also full of old Japanese bunkers lying around. The reason is because during the Japanese"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688440674532933632) 2023-08-07T06:43Z 134.6K followers, 11.8K engagements
"Remember folks: when the West sends warships patrolling near the Chinese coastline on a near daily basis it's "freedom of navigation exercises" - nothing to see there - but when China or Russia do it it's "highly provocative""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688441324817825792) 2023-08-07T06:45Z 183.4K followers, 212.5K engagements
"We spending the night in the most important WW2 historical site you've never heard of: Nomonhan (also known as the site of the battles of Khalkhin Gol) where the Soviet Union defeated Japan in [----] which changed the course of the war. Japan and Nazi Germany may have won WW2 were it not for the battles that happened right here during [---] days. Incredibly this episode of the war is virtually untaught in the West maybe because it didn't involve the West (which shows how self-centered our version of history is). During WW2 Northeast of China had been invaded and annexed by Japan transformed into"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688567343688138753) 2023-08-07T15:06Z 130.7K followers, 196.9K engagements
"Indian media being their usual honest selves trying to make people believe antisemitism is rampant in China (which couldn't be further from the truth) by making up quotes from Israeli researchers"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688570994620067840) 2023-08-07T15:21Z 183.1K followers, 11.2K engagements
"Interesting choice of picture for your main title today @guardian. Often propaganda isn't obvious in-your-face "you must hate China" articles but small and seemingly innocuous editorial choices like this unconsciously making the connection between "China" and "bad news" 😢"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688728216914268160) 2023-08-08T01:45Z 183.3K followers, 21.2K engagements
"This is actually raises interesting questions: almost immediately after someone wrote China's core values on a wall in London ("prosperity" "civility" "harmony" etc.) it was erased and covered up with right-think anti-China political slogans (references to Tiananmen etc.) by "activists". The Guardian cites one of the "activists" a Taiwan born lady called Mary: I didnt know the original intention of the artist but at least I can explain the second layer of what people added which shows that Chinese people still have some agency Actually I would argue it shows quite the opposite: that people in"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688737408505024512) 2023-08-08T02:22Z 183.8K followers, 134.2K engagements
"WaPo: "Taken from their homes Native American children were forced to attend Indian boarding schools as part of an effort by the federal government to wipe out their languages and culture." When they accuse others it's almost always projection"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688740160090066944) 2023-08-08T02:33Z 182.9K followers, 26.6K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and we might just be staring at the cutest train station in China 😊 We're in Arshan - in Inner Mongolia quite close to the border with Mongolia - a city with a very peculiar architecture style. This particular train station was built in [----] and is still active"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688814313673502720) 2023-08-08T07:28Z 164K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Yesterday as we approached the Mongolian border I got my passport controlled which was the first time any of my paperwork got controlled in [--] days of non-stop driving in China (which ought to tell you how much of a "police state" China actually is.) When the soldier saw I was French he said "wow this is the first time we see a French person around here" which is funny but also quite sad in way it really shouldn't be the case. Discovering China and trying to understand it the real China outside the main touristic destinations should be encouraged in Europe. Even if China is seen by many as an"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1688945567475613696) 2023-08-08T16:09Z 183.3K followers, 186K engagements
"Wow. Just wow. That's absolutely appalling. They've really decided to emulate Ukraine in just about every way haven't they Even in their rehabilitation of WW2 collaborators"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1689172409612668928) 2023-08-09T07:11Z 152.6K followers, 151.5K engagements
"Interesting read The 2020s "Chinese spy" is the 2000s "Muslim terrorist" manufacturing consent by racializing the threat"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1689309791834038272) 2023-08-09T16:16Z 183.6K followers, 19.7K engagements
"Biden: "Let me be direct about the competition between the United States and China. The United States will conduct itself as a reasonable leader. We do not seek a Cold War. We do not ask any nation to choose between the United States or any other partner." Really 🤦♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1689314668396089344) 2023-08-09T16:36Z 183.6K followers, 48.1K engagements
"You haven't lived until you've seen 100s of horses running together to the sound of Mongolian rock music in the grassland. We spent the day yesterday in Wulanmaodu Inner Mongolia China watching a naadam a traditional Mongolian festival. And wow it was quite a sight 😮"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1689453213785935873) 2023-08-10T01:46Z 183.7K followers, 51.9K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China Today we visited Gegen temple in Ulanhot which I believe is the largest Tibetan Buddhism temple in Inner Mongolia. Stunning place A temple built on a hill with [---] steps to get to the top. We went from the bottom"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1689808846938832896) 2023-08-11T01:19Z 183.2K followers, 27K engagements
"Wow that's insane 😦 Biden on China's economy: "They've got some problems. That's not good because when bad folks have problems they do bad things". So China is now "bad folks" Don't people realize just how irresponsible this kind of rhetoric is from an American president"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1689862194803232768) 2023-08-11T04:51Z 138.1K followers, 142.9K engagements
"Epic dinner tonight in a restaurant in a small town called Faku in Liaoning province. Beijing duck with homemade pancakes cabbage with peanut sauce tofu skin with meat glass noodles with pork belly diced potatoes fried duck carcass. We are FULL 😅"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1689937170276986880) 2023-08-11T09:49Z 137.7K followers, 17K engagements
"This is where we're parked for the night: right next to the 1000-year old Liao dynasty "white crane tower" in Faku Liaoning province. Obviously it's been restored to its former glory (and lighting has been added) but at 52m incredible they could build something like this back then"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1689966337110720512) 2023-08-11T11:45Z 183.6K followers, 54.8K engagements
"Yet another report riddled with obvious disinformation by Safeguard Defenders the same "NGO" that brought you the "Secret Chinese police stations". One of the silliest and most egregious one is this screenshot of a conversation which they claim is the Chinese police contacting a Uyghur in Turkey and which they apparently think is such an important piece of evidence that they included it on [--] different pages of the report (out of 16). Small problem: one can't have "unknown" numbers on Whatsapp (let alone one with a policeman profile pic 🤦♂) you're always at least shown the phone number. And"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690019109163970560) 2023-08-11T15:15Z 135.7K followers, 39.7K engagements
"Denis Simon a professor at the University of North Carolina resigned from his post because of the ambient sinophobia and his interview is worth a read. He makes the point that cutting off ties with China especially in academia will be to the U.S.'s detriment: not only will it mean that the US will understand China less and less (a threat to the US in and of itself) but it could also result in the US falling behind China technologically as they won't get as many Chinese scientists (who are going back to China en masse) and won't get abreast of China's progress as is normally the case through"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690028590409359360) 2023-08-11T15:53Z 183K followers, 70.1K engagements
"Remember when the West absolutely lost it at the mere suggestion that China would have a security agreement with the Solomon islands The US is "considering security guarantees for [--] Pacific Island nations". Where is the outrage"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690167602910515200) 2023-08-12T01:05Z 136.2K followers, 16.8K engagements
"This is really disgusting. And then you wonder why the Global South wants to build a new world order. The current one shamefully and openly seeks to hold their development back"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690168801239949312) 2023-08-12T01:10Z 183.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating article in @AmericanAffrs that looks at public opinion research in China and the [--] "surprises" it reveals: 1) The Tiananmen protests in [----] was not a "pro-democracy" movement but an anti-reform movement"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690174192929628160) 2023-08-12T01:31Z 141.9K followers, 48K engagements
"Saying the quiet part out loud: "others are dying to help achieve our geopolitical objectives and WE GET PAID for the privilege" I hate to say it but if one looks at it cynically he's right. It's us Europeans who are undescribably stupid for falling for this"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690193478595330048) 2023-08-12T02:48Z 183.4K followers, 28K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and today we're in for a huge treat: we're visiting the official winery of the Qing imperial family (Aisin-Gioro) established in the Liao dynasty. This is in Faku Liaoning province. EXTRAORDINARILY charming place truly Watch the video as I discover the compound"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690201598923010049) 2023-08-12T03:20Z 289.9K followers, 11.4K engagements
"All the "despair" metrics in the US are in the deep deep red. Factually the American population is suffering very badly. It shouldn't be cause for rejoice but an opportunity to show Americans the harm they do to themselves and to the world and that dramatic change is needed"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690242368971444224) 2023-08-12T06:02Z 183.3K followers, 21.1K engagements
"We're now in a very special farm in Liaoning province called "Tanbo Art Kingdom" where they make drawings in rice fields out of different varieties of rice. Extremely cute place"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690247577395195904) 2023-08-12T06:23Z 183.4K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Let's not forget that when KMT lost the civil war it was a military dictatorship (which is largely why they lost they were hated by the population which much favored the Communists) a regime type which they perpetuated in Taiwan until [----]. So had they won the civil war this is likely what they'd have sought to impose on the whole of China which would have been absolutely impossible to sustain on such a large population. This means that what would have probably happened is what typically happens in Chinese history when a regime is disliked by the population: more civil war chaos and China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690387019577630720) 2023-08-12T15:37Z 183.2K followers, 78.7K engagements
"Why on earth would it share it 🤦♂ Are we now doing "China bad because it respects data privacy" 😅"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690402787727986688) 2023-08-12T16:40Z 183.1K followers, 34.3K engagements
"Chip war update: US chip industry tells Biden to stop restricting their access "to the China market the worlds largest commercial market for commodity semiconductor". Designed to kill China's chip industry it boosts it and weakens America's 🤷♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690536669563551744) 2023-08-13T01:32Z 182.9K followers, 19.1K engagements
"Next time you hear the US blabbering about the "rules based order" you might want to refer to this report just issued by China's Ministry of Commerce. For the first time they've compiled the myriads of ways in which the US violated international trade law whether it was by "undermining the multilateral trading rules imposing unilateral sanctions manipulating double standards in industrial policies and disturbing global industrial and supply chains" or in general "taking unilateral measures against other members under the guise of so-called 'national security' 'human rights' and 'forced"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690544985006116864) 2023-08-13T02:05Z 182.9K followers, 499.2K engagements
"@baoshaoshan And sadly will be slandered as Chinese propaganda even though it's all 100% fact based. Such is the world we live in 😢"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690581857153490944) 2023-08-13T04:31Z 268.3K followers, 23.6K engagements
"@Davidpa97558507 Or powerful countries could think long-term try to go beyond "might makes right" and put a fair system in place in which all of humanity can thrive"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690582535171149824) 2023-08-13T04:34Z 183.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"French media are hilarious. Whatever China scaremongering story is published in the US you can be 100% sure that a few months afterwards they'll do the very same story translated and adapted to France. Today in Le Figaro: "Investigation on China raiding French farmland" [--] year after the American version 🤦♂ Even though in both cases we're speaking about such ridiculously small amounts of farmland that it's totally inconsequential. Also it's not "China" buying the land but private individuals who happen to be Chinese"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690589795465240577) 2023-08-13T05:03Z 183K followers, 22.8K engagements
"Day [--]. We visit Zhalong National Nature Reserve the world's biggest reserve for red-crowned cranes a magnificent bird )"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690763592076062720) 2023-08-13T16:33Z 183K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Day [--]. We drive a long road to Hailar the main town in Inner Mongolia's famous Hulunbuir grassland. We join a Mongolian party as we arrive in the evening )"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690763687773315072) 2023-08-13T16:34Z 164K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--]. We attend a Naadam a traditional Mongolian festival ). It was a truly unique event with 100s of horses running in the grassland Mongolian wrestling a fantastic Mongolian concert etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690765589307105280) 2023-08-13T16:41Z 183.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--]. We go back to the naadam in the morning to attend a Mongolian dairy competition and taste horse yogurt for the first time ) and we then drive to Gegen temple the biggest Tibetan Buddhism temple in Inner Mongolia )"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690765725416493056) 2023-08-13T16:42Z 183.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--]. We're back to Shenyang to give back the RV 😭 Thanks to everyone who followed us during our journey. Hopefully we've been able to show you a somewhat different image of China than the one you're typically shown"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690766177017135104) 2023-08-13T16:44Z 183.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow Chinas July automobile exports jump 63% helping extend the lead over Japan as the worlds biggest vehicle-exporting economy. Local Chinese brand made up 80% of the exports"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1690892338426769408) 2023-08-14T01:05Z 182.9K followers, 50.8K engagements
"That's why China already won Seen just now at 8.30pm on an August Monday night in a mall in Shenyang. The kids look no more than 7-8 years old and here they are learning to code a program in python that asks people to set their password"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691071706130165762) 2023-08-14T12:58Z 183.8K followers, 250K engagements
"A story I always tell is that when you go to villages in rural France you always have monuments to honor the village's youths who died at war. When you go to villages in China you have monuments to honor the village's youths who passed the Keju exam (the ancestor of the Gaokao). This says an awful lot"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691119198460948481) 2023-08-14T16:06Z 183.1K followers, 394.9K engagements
"Yet another top scientist of Chinese descent leaves the US for China after being investigated McCarthy-style for "China ties". Kunliang Guan is one of the most cited researchers in the field of biochemistry and a recipient of a MacArthur genius award"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691272076282503169) 2023-08-15T02:14Z 183.2K followers, 94.5K engagements
"They should build a monument to both Biden and Trump with "Thank you for your invaluable contribution to Chinese scientific progress" 😄"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691282922136129536) 2023-08-15T02:57Z 183.1K followers, 10.1K engagements
"China and it's not even close. The diversity of the cuisines and ingredients in China - and the extreme level of refinement of some of the dishes - simply has no other parallel. Sadly you can only really experience it in China. Chinese restaurants abroad most often have very little to do with what you can find in China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691328158501650432) 2023-08-15T05:57Z 183K followers, 142.2K engagements
"Today in Shenyang we're visiting the former home of Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang. Zhang Zuolin used to be the richest man in China and the most powerful man in the Northeast during China's "warlord era" in the beginning of the 20th century until he was killed by the Japanese. Enraged his son Xueliang reunified the Northeast with the rest of China and proceeded to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek during the famous "Xi'an incident" in [----] because he was frustrated by his policy of "first internal pacification (i.e fight Mao's Communists) then external resistance" and forced him to agree to"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691340229184253953) 2023-08-15T06:45Z 183.5K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Now visiting Zhongjie ("Middle street") Shenyang's famous commercial pedestrian street and actually historically China's very first commercial pedestrian street People keep saying that China's economy isn't doing well but whenever we go into commercial areas like this it's always absolutely full packed with people. So anecdotal evidence tells me it's not doing too bad"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691375404936990720) 2023-08-15T09:04Z 183.8K followers, 17.6K engagements
"@FreedomMaxima I've seen times when people were actually not spending during Zero Covid totally different vibe today. Also when I was traveling every tourist site was packed: tourism is the first type of discretionary expense people should cut if they were struggling and they aren't"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691440840970059776) 2023-08-15T13:24Z 229.3K followers, [---] engagements
"More seriously try living an upper middle income family lifestyle in Shanghai or other large cities: [--] bedroom apartment private or international school and activity classes for the kids cleaning lady a few times a week or full time ayi a couple of holdidays a year etc. You'll find out that what you need to pay for this today is a good 20% higher than even [--] years ago. I'd love for prices to be falling but I just don't see it 🤷♂"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691456700325478400) 2023-08-15T14:27Z 183.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Long time followers will know that the RV road trip we just finished in Northeast China was actually our 2nd such road trip in China. We did another one [--] years ago in the middle of Zero Covid which in many ways was even more epic Since it ended somewhat abruptly (see below) I never got a chance to write a retrospective. So here you go a 🧵 thread with the highlights of our [----] RV road trip"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691478439315034112) 2023-08-15T15:54Z 164K followers, 139K engagements
"Day [--] July 26th [----]. We drive from Zhengzhou Henan province (where we rented the RV) to Luoyang to see the famous Longmen Grottoes"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691478840156262400) 2023-08-15T15:55Z 250.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--]. From Longmen we drive to Xi'an in Shaanxi province to see - what else - the world famous Qin terracotta army We spend the night right next to the site in the front yard of a local farmer"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691479017650823168) 2023-08-15T15:56Z 250.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is a genuinely hilarious story: Janet Yellen inadvertently ate hallucinogenic mushrooms during her latest trip in China 😅"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691630283223863693) 2023-08-16T01:57Z 183.6K followers, 35.8K engagements
"Wow even the WSJ now acknowledges that all the sinophobia and cutting of ties with China in academia might be hurting the US much more than it does China. US policy makers have a backward understanding of who benefits from Chinese collaboration"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691845726995964367) 2023-08-16T16:13Z 163K followers, 16K engagements
""The U.S. depends more heavily on China than China does on the U.S. in some strategic areas according to an analysis by Clarivate of studies in respected journals shared exclusively with The Wall Street Journal. Between [----] and [----] U.S.-China collaborations accounted for 27% of U.S.-based scientists high-quality research in nanoscience for example but only 13% of China-based scientists. The gap in telecommunications was even wider with collaborations accounting for 10% of Chinas output but more than 33% of the U.S.s. More than a dozen U.S.-based scientists interviewed by the Journal"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691847059190804821) 2023-08-16T16:19Z 183.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Why is it always former politicians who dare state the obvious Sarkozy says Europe "needs Russia" and should seek a compromise with it with Ukraine "staying neutral" and not joining NATO nor the EU"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691982610732372218) 2023-08-17T01:17Z 183.5K followers, 126.8K engagements
"Could we maybe consider having politicians say and do the right WHILE IN OFFICE It is after all the same Sarkozy who at the [----] NATO Bucharest summit agreed to language stating Ukraine "will become member of NATO" which in many ways started this all mess"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1691989671495258264) 2023-08-17T01:45Z 183.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The most interesting part of our RV road trip in China this summer isn't actually what we saw but what we DIDN'T see. Here it is: 1) We didn't see any trace of this mythical "social credit score" (which means I still haven't seen any in 10+ years of traveling and living in China.). 2) We didn't see any homelessness nor did we see any extreme poverty despite traveling in some of the less developed parts of rural China. We of course saw a lot of folks that were obviously not well off - China is still on average a poorer country than the West - but no-one living in slums or begging on the"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692076651063156831) 2023-08-17T07:31Z 183.6K followers, 486.5K engagements
"This was unexpected: for our last few hours in Shenyang we visited the "Shenyang Science Centrum" and it turned out to be the single best science museum I've seen in my life (and I think I've been to 50+ around the world including those with the reputation to be the best in San Francisco London Paris etc.) It's massive on [--] floors with hundreds of "experiments" kids can make around many themes (physics maths biology space etc.) all extremely well explained and entirely free"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692089167730397555) 2023-08-17T08:21Z 268.4K followers, 33.1K engagements
"What a great deal: pay for the privilege of losing your sovereignty. Literally dereliction of duty to sign up your country to this. In statecraft nothing is more important than preserving your country's sovereignty. Mind-blowing there aren't more people seeing it"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692096361431507229) 2023-08-17T08:49Z 183.5K followers, 15.1K engagements
""Free and fair" elections when the elected (anti-American) PM was ousted - under the documented encouragement of the US - and is now in jail. I remain in awe of Blinken's cynicism and capacity for Orwellian doublespeak"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1692340227837415472) 2023-08-18T00:58Z [--] followers, 101K engagements
"EV batteries from China "face scrutiny under US law on Chinese forced labor" Quite a strange coincidence that they always seem to find "forced labor" in critical industries where they can't compete against China 🤔 Almost as if it was a BS excuse"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692346853818568800) 2023-08-18T01:25Z 183.1K followers, [----] engagements
"We're discovering Chengdu's Tianfu airport one of the newest airports in China. Many open-air courtyards with bamboo forests which is a very nice touch"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692383274184937973) 2023-08-18T03:49Z 182.9K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Fascinating study published by Cambridge University Press on the opposition between international law and the "rules based order" and how the latter undermines the former. Very glad to see it: just months ago this was considered a "tankie" argument"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692400104765005986) 2023-08-18T04:56Z 136.9K followers, 50.7K engagements
"If you did a focus group with Western youths on one side and Chinese on the other I'm pretty damn sure the most "disenchanted and full angst" ones wouldn't be the Chinese. In fact they'd look incredibly hopeful and optimistic in comparison It's all relative"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692406724995793307) 2023-08-18T05:23Z 183.3K followers, 55K engagements
"Big brain time. If I got his argument right from all the incoherence he says "leftards" (which he defines as "all the collectivists") are "shit" because they don't let people think differently so therefore "you can't give them an inch" or "negociate" with them effectively meaning he himself refuses people who think differently i.e. the very thing he hates about "leftards" 🤡"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692572181270757855) 2023-08-18T16:20Z 146.3K followers, 56.6K engagements
"Tired of the ridiculous "everyone I disagree with is a Chinese agent". And unlike you with your China-bashing YouTube grift I'm never earned a single cent from tweeting (or giving interviews to the Chinese press for that matter which isn't "working for Chinese state media"). I have no "role" I just like China (the people the culture the food the whole lot) and I hate the anti-China hysteria and fear mongering so prevalent in our messed up world (and which you've made a business out of) so I tweet my views and experience in China to restore a tad of sanity and balance. It doesn't make me a"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692594229435064519) 2023-08-18T17:48Z 182.9K followers, 107.9K engagements
"Why would I start criticizing China too when 99.99% of the commentary of China out there does just that What would be the point of adding to that incredibly loud chorus I don't pretend to be fair. I'm 100% biased. And so is everyone else by the way just the other way around. The whole point of my tweeting about China is like I wrote above to offer a counterview to the overwhelming negativity and hatred. To show there also is an enormous amount to love about China. I don't pretend that China is perfect I've never claimed that. But I absolutely admit proudly and rationally that I focus on the"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692602266853990663) 2023-08-18T18:20Z 183.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Interesting article by Nicholas Lardy perhaps the most esteemed Western expert on China's economy: "A careful reading of the present situation does not support the view that China's growth is now gripped by a severe cyclical downward spiral.""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692732457609756954) 2023-08-19T02:57Z 183.6K followers, 27.8K engagements
"Interesting write up on why SK's current rapprochement with Japan is likely unsustainable because led by president Yoon who "doesn't care" about what the South Korean people think about the rapprochement (they hate it) or its consequences. Not surprising he's so loved in Washington"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1692775289968042047) 2023-08-19T05:47Z 182.9K followers, 15.4K engagements
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"Who could have predicted this 😏 The chairman of Taiwans biggest chip designer Mediateks Tsai Ming-kai says the US' chip bans are good for mainland chipmakers and bad for Taiwan's. https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/us_bans_mediatek/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/us_bans_mediatek/"
X Link 2023-03-30T23:56Z 268.3K followers, 250.6K engagements
"He co-authored for the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association that says that if no action is taken Taiwans overall chip market share will slide while Chinas flourishes"
X Link 2023-03-30T23:57Z 268.3K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Many assume that China is a top down "central planning" type system. Actually it might be the most decentralized country in the world. Local governments (provinces cities villages etc.) account for a crazy 85% of the country's expenditures. The OECD average is. 33%"
X Link 2023-04-05T02:53Z 268.3K followers, 624.9K engagements
"Achievement unlocked Today I became the first person ever to debate Adrian Zenz on China Please watch the video of our debate on the topic "Is the Chinese system better than the American/European one at providing stability prosperity and freedom" https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8eGa6i2DY3A https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8eGa6i2DY3A"
X Link 2023-04-06T03:36Z 268.3K followers, 195.4K engagements
"Fascinating that there are two subtle references to coming Taiwan conflict ("avoid any escalation" and "ward off fatalities others want to write for us") and Macron almost suggesting France's role is to help China "ward off" the US on this with the US being the instigator here"
X Link 2023-04-10T04:48Z 268.3K followers, 16.6K engagements
"All in all it couldn't be clearer now with this and Macron's earlier communication that he sees France as China's foremost ally in the West to counter US-led efforts to contain the country. It truly is a seismic geopolitical event the West now has a major fracture re China"
X Link 2023-04-10T04:48Z 268.3K followers, 23.5K engagements
"This is huge European Council president Charles Michel : "European leaders are becoming increasingly favorable toward French President Emmanuel Macron's push for 'strategic autonomy' away from the United States" https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-warming-up-to-macrons-strategic-autonomy-push-says-charles-michel/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-warming-up-to-macrons-strategic-autonomy-push-says-charles-michel/"
X Link 2023-04-12T00:34Z 286.6K followers, 926.5K engagements
"That's bad news this guy is even more of an extremist than Tsai when it comes to Taiwan independence. But in a way it makes the choice clear for the Taiwanese electorate at the next election between DPP and KMT: are you for conflict with the mainland or not BREAKING: Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has just chosen Vice President @ChingteLai as its nominee for the [----] presidential race. Image: Office of the President https://t.co/vS4P7yJxMR BREAKING: Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has just chosen Vice President @ChingteLai as its nominee for the [----] presidential"
X Link 2023-04-12T08:52Z 268.4K followers, 46.5K engagements
"This is incredible. This is one of the main China "experts" in France who gives her definition for what a China expert is: you can only be one if you're considered hostile by China. Those China likes are worthless "amateurs" and "idiots". The sheer state of sinology in France 🤦 Un indice : tous ceux que le Parti communiste qualifie de vieux amis de la Chine (traduction : idiot (ou intress) utile) et qui ses reprsentants ne dclarent pas vous devriez mieux tudier la Chine. Les professionnels se reconnaissent au qualificatif de soi-disant Un indice : tous ceux que le Parti communiste qualifie"
X Link 2023-04-13T10:15Z 345.9K followers, 34K engagements
""Big drop in German exports to China" in part because "Germany is now considered to be allies with the US" resulting in forecast that it will be the "weakest performer among the worlds big economies this year". Stellar performance Mrs Baerbock"
X Link 2023-05-25T00:15Z 183.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow easily one of the best speeches I've heard on US-China by a Chinese official impressive "I still believe that a sound and stable China-US relationship is in the interest of both countries. It is also the shared expectation of the international community and a major"
X Link 2023-05-25T04:04Z 131.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Translation: "We want to do IP theft with complete impunity""
X Link 2023-06-01T05:36Z 345.9K followers, 49.3K engagements
"Austin unironically says that "the US is doubling down" on encircling China military because there is "no room for intimidation bullying or coercion". https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3222826/shangri-la-dialogue-us-defence-chief-lloyd-austin-doubles-down-security-alliance-push https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3222826/shangri-la-dialogue-us-defence-chief-lloyd-austin-doubles-down-security-alliance-push"
X Link 2023-06-03T02:11Z 252.1K followers, 162.8K engagements
""We're not trying to create a NATO in the Indo-Pacific" said Lloyd Austin yesterday whilst NATO continues its expansion to Asia opening a Japan office and working hard on "interoperability" between NATO and Taiwan (src: 🔽 Maybe he should have added ".since it's NATO itself that's going to do the job." 🤷♂ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3222748/us-help-taiwan-access-natos-link-22-tactical-data-system-could-boost-islands-status-bloc https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3222748/us-help-taiwan-access-natos-link-22-tactical-data-system-could-boost-islands-status-bloc"
X Link 2023-06-04T03:24Z 250.9K followers, 14.9K engagements
"Incredible and maybe even unprecedented answer by Arnaud Montebourg - former French Minister of Economy - to the question "what method do the Americans use to wage economic warfare against us" Here's the translation (by me): "They use military tools. First of all they use all the listening and intelligence systems that they built on after 9/11. They don't listen to terrorists.well they certainly do and that's very good.but they listen to foreign companies that compete with theirs. So it's very simple it became clear in [----] when Snowden revealed that there were [--] million conversations and"
X Link 2023-06-04T14:49Z 253.8K followers, 1.9M engagements
"Wow this is exceedingly rare. The immense Noam Chomsky was given a whole [--] minutes on Piers Morgan to explain how the US is provoking China into war and he does a brilliant job at it. An absolute must-watch if you want to understand what's happening. He explains how the US is 1) "abandoning the One-China policy" that has "held the peace in the region for [--] years" 2) increasingly "encircling China with a ring of sentinel states armed with advanced precision weapons aimed at China" and 3) waging "a war to prevent China from developing" all the while gaslighting the world into believing it's"
X Link 2023-06-09T01:56Z 287.1K followers, 2.1M engagements
"This is incredible. Franois Fillion former Prime Minister of France (2007-2012) explains during a recent audition at the French National Assembly that the large majority of foreign interference in France is committed by the Americans. Here is the exact translation of what he says (by me): "Have I encountered foreign interference in my political life and particularly when I was in government Yes I have encountered it. Most of the time they came from a friendly and allied country called the United States. I am not passing judgement: your commission is working on foreign interference. I am"
X Link 2023-06-12T02:00Z 310.7K followers, 828.9K engagements
"I'm aware this narrative fits the current zeitgeist but it's actually standard Chinese protocol. Here are Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton both welcomed in respectively [----] and [----] in Beijing by Xie Feng at the time China's Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for North America which is the same role as the official who welcomed Blinken. As a Washington Post journalist you'd think it'd be your job to check an information's accuracy before tweeting it 🤷 Low level official met Blinken at the airport. May be the start of Beijings plan to humiliate him. Lets"
X Link 2023-06-18T09:27Z 350.1K followers, 411.3K engagements
"Literally took [--] hours for insults to start again 🙄 What's the point of sending Blinken to Beijing to cool things down if you're going to insult Xi literally the day after That's frankly beyond me. 🤷♂ US President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator adding that Xi was very embarrassed when a Chinese balloon was blown off course over the US recently https://t.co/3oknuviktG https://t.co/Pk5nUgOZFu US President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator adding that Xi was very embarrassed when a Chinese balloon was blown off course over the US recently"
X Link 2023-06-21T03:56Z 286.8K followers, 354.4K engagements
"Could Twitter offer a feature where I can automatically blocks all those people who call themselves "NAFO" and have a Shiba Inu dog as their profile picture These people are beyond toxic. I thought they were supposed to be focused on Ukraine which I barely every tweet about"
X Link 2023-06-22T15:32Z 183.2K followers, 54.1K engagements
""1000 years of foreign rule" 👀 I take it that Modi then believes that the Taj Mahal the red fort in Delhi Fatehpur Sikri Jaipur's Hawa Mahal etc. were all built by foreign invaders 🤔 In his address to Congress Modi speaking in English with a teleprompter repeated many of the elements of the joint statement but added controversially that India had won its freedom after "1000 years of foreign rule". https://t.co/mTLWCvLcEB In his address to Congress Modi speaking in English with a teleprompter repeated many of the elements of the joint statement but added controversially that India had won"
X Link 2023-06-23T15:29Z 338.6K followers, 49.7K engagements
"So. last week"
X Link 2023-06-25T04:45Z 142.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@RandiSi98566178 @lcbrooks31 Downstream from the Yalong river is only China. The river starts in China ends in the sea in China. What an utterly ridiculous take"
X Link 2023-06-27T16:46Z 183.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Blinken says that the US doesn't seek to contain China just to prevent them from "gettingtechnology that they may turn around and use against us" or be used "for repressive purposes" like "AI". Which is the very definition of containing China"
X Link 2023-06-28T23:47Z 164K followers, [----] engagements
"Extraordinary statement on Taiwan by Bob Carr former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs: "If the worst thing that faces the people of Taiwan would be what prevails in Hong Kong today then we haven't got a cause for war. I'd like to see the National Security Law no longer"
X Link 2023-06-29T01:56Z 182.9K followers, [----] engagements
""Saying it out loud" moment on the quid pro quo Europe faces wrt the U.S. and China. This is Noah Barkin from U.S. think tank Rhodium Group explaining that if Europe doesn't do America's bidding on China the U.S. will stop defending Europe and punish them economically"
X Link 2023-06-29T02:16Z 183.8K followers, [----] engagements
"No matter your politics closing people's bank accounts is something we should all be dead set against. It's a happening to more and more people: the truckers in Canada many independent journalists anyone even remotely connected to countries sanctioned by the West public"
X Link 2023-06-29T22:36Z 183.2K followers, 145.7K engagements
"@JamesSm71937524 I've seen dozens of examples recently. It's not about his case specifically. And he'll never know the reason by the way they don't have to tell him"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:15Z 183.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The truth is that yes the Chinese people want to be liked and so does China as a country. They want the world to like their culture their traditions their literature their art etc. And they deeply resent the extreme paranoiac level of hatred China gets. Is that evil"
X Link 2023-06-30T02:10Z 183.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This comes after Biden himself admitted the balloon was blown off course and therefore never meant to be over the US in the first place. So once more this whole episode was a ridiculously overblown collective paranoia"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:43Z 183.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I agree with this 100%. Climate change is the one thing most likely to change global public opinions on China. The world will wake up one day and realize China managed to completely transition their [---] billion people country to an "ecological civilization" with zero emissions in record time. They'll then take a look at their own country take a look at ever higher temperatures and ever more frequent climate catastrophes and realize China is the only country competent and capable enough to lead us out of this mess"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:08Z 182.9K followers, 97.4K engagements
"@Meow_Meow_2020 Thanks will take a look"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:12Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@CharlesBloom_WA Huh Not sure what you're talking about to be honest. There is no "social credit score" in China it's pretty much entirely a Western myth and it certainly has absolutely nothing to do with what you write on social media"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:53Z 183K followers, [--] engagements
"@CharlesBloom_WA I lived during [--] years in China and travelled in [--] Chinese provinces: never came across this "social credit score". I also use Chinese social media daily and see no trace of it there either. The only thing that does exist is that you can be put on a "blacklist" by a tribunal if"
X Link 2023-06-30T02:46Z 183K followers, [---] engagements
"We're truly witnessing a radicalization on both sides in France. This is an unreal communiqu by the main French police unions essentially declaring France is in a civil war and that the police is in the "resistance" against the government. This is the translation: "Now that's enough. Facing these savage hordes asking for calm is no longer enough it must be imposed Restoring the republican order and putting the apprehended beyond the capacity to harm should be the only political signals to give. In the face of such exactions the police family must stand together. Our colleagues like the"
X Link 2023-07-01T01:52Z 286.1K followers, 6.3M engagements
"@JuteRaider Just for info I will block all racist and uninformed commenters like this guy. First of all like it or not these "immigrants" are French in their immense majority. Most often for the 2nd or 3rd generation 🔽 since the bulk of the immigrants from North Africa came in the 60s"
X Link 2023-07-01T04:15Z 150.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Riots spreading to Lausanne Switzerland. Which is mind-blowing to me: I lived during [--] years in Lausanne and never witnessed as much as a single protest"
X Link 2023-07-02T06:43Z [--] followers, 252K engagements
"US presidential candidate Marianne Williamson when asked about reports of China helping train Cuban troops: "Do you know how many military bases we have surrounding China [---]. Americans need to wake up." I actually didn't know it was SO many. Insane"
X Link 2023-07-04T00:02Z [--] followers, 458K engagements
"Wow he is even more insane than I thought. Here is Lai Ching-te (presidential candidate for Taiwan's independentist party DPP) 4-point plan "to preserve peace in the Taiwan strait": 1) More weapons bigger army 2) Decouple economy from China 3) Reinforce alliance with the West 4) "Steady and principled cross-strait leadership" whatever that means. He goes on to imply he rejects the [----] consensus and the one China framework since "Mr. Xi himself has called it a road map for unification". To sum up: more weapons reduce peaceful economic exchanges reinforce alliance with China's adversaries and"
X Link 2023-07-06T01:30Z 252.4K followers, 210.7K engagements
"Yesterday we had a short layover in Beijing where we jumped on the opportunity to visit the National Museum of China where they keep some of the most precious treasures of ancient China. A few items we saw 🧵"
X Link 2023-07-09T04:07Z 183.7K followers, 130.2K engagements
"The famous sculpture of a Han dynasty dwarf "Pai You" (jester)"
X Link 2023-07-09T04:07Z 183K followers, [----] engagements
"An imperial Han dynasty jade burial suit"
X Link 2023-07-09T04:07Z 251K followers, 12.7K engagements
"One of the famous horses and soldiers from the Qin dynasty terracotta army in Xi'an"
X Link 2023-07-09T04:07Z 259.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Another smaller Qin dynasty "terracotta army""
X Link 2023-07-09T04:07Z 259.9K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Some of the otherworldly bronze masks from the Shang dynasty (3500 years old) unearthed at Sanxingdui"
X Link 2023-07-09T04:11Z 183.8K followers, [----] engagements
"This is probably the future of vending machines: seen in the street in Beijing a couple of self driving ice cream vending machines that presumably move around based on where there's a higher concentration of customers are at any given moment"
X Link 2023-07-09T05:15Z 182.9K followers, 83.7K engagements
"Little known fact about China: it's allowed to swim in pretty much all rivers in the middle of cities like those guys I just saw in Shenyang the capital of Liaoning province. I've seen it all over China including in Shanghai"
X Link 2023-07-09T08:19Z 159K followers, 48.1K engagements
"@fractious_012 The water looks quite clean you can see some fishes swimming around"
X Link 2023-07-10T07:54Z 152.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I actually missed this a lot when I was outside China: donkey meat burger. It's a staple of northern Chinese cuisine and it's super good. The bun is also very special: a sort of ultra-crispy puff pastry"
X Link 2023-07-09T11:35Z 183.6K followers, 34.8K engagements
"@RealCalories1 Is it My bad if so"
X Link 2023-07-09T11:33Z 137.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Absolutely extraordinary statement by former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating: "Exporting that malicious poison that is NATO into Asia would be akin to Asia welcoming the plague upon itself . Of all the people on the international stage the supreme fool among them is"
X Link 2023-07-17T17:52Z 183.5K followers, 315.9K engagements
"US politicians really need to stop using this line because I don't know a single Chinese person who buys it it sounds insanely hypocritical. When they try to cut China's access to the latest generation chips is that going to impact the Chinese government or the people 🤷♂"
X Link 2023-07-09T14:13Z 183.5K followers, 104.3K engagements
"You can see her at the Hunan Provincial Museum in Changsha with most of the content of the Mawangdui tombs. Easily one of the most extraordinary museums I've seen in China: enormous amount of extremely well preserved [----] years old royal artefacts including silk clothes so"
X Link 2023-07-10T04:21Z 183.4K followers, 12.1K engagements
"Chinese scholar Wu Xinbo: "Yellens trip won't result in a substantive improvement in relations unless it was accompanied by changes in the Biden administrations policies toward China. So far we havent seen any sign that Biden will rethink his economic policy toward China.""
X Link 2023-07-10T05:14Z 183K followers, 29.7K engagements
""We're not surrounding you to surround you" 🤦♂ As always imagine if the shoe was on the other foot: if China had [---] bases surrounding the US (literally) formed military alliances with say Mexico and Canada and Xi went on TV saying "we're not doing that to surround you merely"
X Link 2023-07-10T06:48Z 183K followers, 166K engagements
"You've heard of the forbidden city in Beijing but did you know there's also one in Shenyang Liaoning province It's the only other one in China. Built by the Manchus when Shenyang was their capital it later became a key imperial palace when they conquered the whole of China"
X Link 2023-07-10T17:17Z 137.1K followers, 106K engagements
""US chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival" Maybe they should have thought about that BEFORE launching a war against China's chip industry. 🤦♂"
X Link 2023-07-10T18:04Z 183.5K followers, 23.6K engagements
"I remember a time not so long ago when India was one of the leaders - and one of the founders - of the Non-Aligned Movement. It now seems to position itself as Washington's ally in preserving its hegemony. Incredible how countries can change"
X Link 2023-07-10T15:42Z 137K followers, 95.7K engagements
""Ukraine is a model for Taiwan" 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂ Are they listening to themselves If I was Taiwan I'd study Ukraine long and hard as a anti-model of what to AVOID. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/ukrainian-strategy-has-become-a-model-taiwanese-beef-up-military-to-face-china-threat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/ukrainian-strategy-has-become-a-model-taiwanese-beef-up-military-to-face-china-threat"
X Link 2023-07-11T00:33Z 268.4K followers, 53.1K engagements
"@jmlaplaza Taiwan isn't a state it's part of China and recognized as such by the US and the entire international community. As for Ukraine I literally just wrote that it's an anti-model so by definition I think what's happening should have been avoided"
X Link 2023-07-11T03:01Z 183.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@PeterHarrisCSU @pstAsiatech I wholly disagree. The more Taiwan beefs up its military which will unavoidably imply an ever closer military cooperation with the US the bigger the security dilemma and thus the risk of war. Which is what happened in Ukraine"
X Link 2023-07-11T01:23Z 183.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Every year in China we go do this incredibly comprehensive health test. They have a number of private testing companies that do this I typically use iKang. These are my tests this morning: I need to go to [--] different rooms (blood test room IRM room ECG room etc.) where"
X Link 2023-07-11T02:51Z 182.9K followers, 43.7K engagements
"Fascinating: an article by Jrgen Kurz one of the founders of the German green party who is extremely critical of his party's policy on China. He's especially negative on green foreign minister Baerbock whom he says has zero understanding of China"
X Link 2023-07-11T03:55Z 183K followers, 75K engagements
"The guy gets it: "We stylize China as a great threat to our democracy and imagine that the Chinese are threatening us.In return we want to explain to China what is going wrong in their country and believe that we can do transform them.Do we seriously believe that from far"
X Link 2023-07-11T03:55Z 164K followers, 20.6K engagements
"In particular he makes the very correct point that from a Green point of view it makes zero sense to treat China as an adversary like the German foreign minister does: "From a green point of view China is a reliable partner in the fight against climate change with whom we"
X Link 2023-07-11T04:42Z 130K followers, 22.6K engagements
"@DannyChean1 In order to justify hostile actions against China to their domestic audiences so it should still bother you 😄"
X Link 2023-07-11T05:29Z 183.4K followers, [----] engagements
"We were lucky enough to be granted a private tour of the BMW Shenyang factory which produces one third () of all BMWs worldwide. Extremely impressive: 95% automation with about [----] robots on the production line (still even with this level of automation this place has [----] workers). For obvious reasons I couldn't take pictures of the production line but it really felt like stepping in the future"
X Link 2023-07-11T09:04Z 359K followers, 150.5K engagements
"@RaphaelVerove In this case I got connected with the CEO who kindly arranged the tour. The factory is open for public tours though (on Fridays and Saturdays I believe) so no need to be so lucky 😊"
X Link 2023-07-11T10:36Z 140.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Also quite a sign they're expanding that factory by A LOT in fact from what I understood they're more than doubling it. Which ought to tell you something about how major German firms see the future with regards to China"
X Link 2023-07-11T10:14Z 268.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"@Abdul30232 Funny how only China developed such advanced industry and no other country even in the West. Maybe because it in fact wasn't "a gift" by the West but a homegrown effort by China 🤷♂"
X Link 2023-07-11T12:09Z 183.5K followers, [--] engagements
"A very interesting piece of information is that Jrgen Kurz the author here and one of the founders of the German Green Party now lives in China with a wife from Xinjiang Makes it even more incomprehensible that his own party is so incompetent on China (which is the point"
X Link 2023-07-11T13:53Z 183.4K followers, 29.4K engagements
"@pmacaverse Of course it's creating tensions with Vietnam that's undeniable. After is that reason enough for China to drop its claims That's another question. China has other interests to take into account here: military security food security (for fishing rights) etc"
X Link 2023-07-11T13:20Z 183.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@apigeonenjoyer My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor so don't expect me to be bullish on the German far right 😉"
X Link 2023-07-11T17:53Z 182.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@livingandcoding Yes of course meeting my wife (we met as university classmates in Switzerland) was why I got interested in the country in the first place"
X Link 2023-07-11T13:52Z 183.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Very good read "If all you have is a hammer the whole world looks like a nail and Nato has by far the worlds biggest hammer. Even though it encompasses just over 10% of the worlds population it accounts for 55% of global military spending; it is by its very nature unable"
X Link 2023-07-11T16:28Z 183.8K followers, 29.5K engagements
"I can't avoid being amazed by the amount of flexibility and efficiency in Chinese administrative procedures. People really go the extra mile to help you which happens with no other country's public administration (at least in my experience). During our current trip my younger"
X Link 2023-07-12T03:52Z 183.6K followers, 440.4K engagements
"Ambiance. Seen during a stroll in a park in Shenyang: a group of elderly folks learning Xinjiang dance"
X Link 2023-07-12T04:03Z 183.7K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Visiting Beiling park in Shenyang a UNESCO world heritage site as it is the tomb of Hong Taiji (Emperor Taizong) the first emperor of the Qing dynasty. The tomb and surrounding park cover a very modest area of [-------] square metres 🤭"
X Link 2023-07-12T03:51Z 268.5K followers, 26.6K engagements
"@MagisterIR Hehe could be. But they also did similar things for me in the past and "cute" doesn't exactly fit me 😋"
X Link 2023-07-12T06:20Z 183.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Discovering the RV in which we'll spend the next [--] weeks touring the North East of China 😊 Looks like it'll do the job"
X Link 2023-07-13T00:04Z 182.5K followers, 15.6K engagements
"@booger9922 I've lived [--] years in China and the only time I've had to go to the police station was when I rented a new apartment to register the rental which only happened twice"
X Link 2023-07-12T13:35Z 183.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@TripInChina Yes of course"
X Link 2023-07-12T15:19Z 182.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@ShanthiRF Yes tweeted about it extraordinary"
X Link 2023-07-12T15:57Z 183K followers, [--] engagements
"@BraneRunner No she's Han"
X Link 2023-07-12T13:37Z 130.7K followers, [---] engagements
"How can you agree to "de-risk" when you don't even know what it means I mean it's literally crazy when you think about it: taking [---] million Europeans onboard a policy no-one has any clue about that's nothing more than a mere slogan. This type of politics leads to disaster:"
X Link 2023-07-12T17:54Z 183.4K followers, 95K engagements
"@mariocavolo Yes very beautiful place We'll have another opportunity I'm sure"
X Link 2023-07-12T17:08Z 183.7K followers, [----] engagements
"That's big and would be an immense victory for Huawei after U.S. attempts to kill the company: looks like Huawei will return to the 5G smartphone industry this year with 7nm chips produced domestically"
X Link 2023-07-13T02:08Z 182.6K followers, 16.9K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV trip in Northern China Today we drove from MeiHeKou to the Changbai mountains right on the border with North Korea. In fact one of the mountains called Paektu is shared with North Korea and is sacred in Korean mythology. On top of it lies a volcano crater lake that's believed to be the birthplace of Koreans. We might go see it tomorrow or the day after if the weather permits. In the meanwhile we've stopped in a blueberry farm. This area is extremely famous for its blueberries so we kind of have to try some"
X Link 2023-07-14T08:31Z 329.4K followers, 27.8K engagements
"Crazy: the EU has apparently decided to directly hire American officials for top EU jobs 🤦♂ Worse this is a person who'd be tasked to regulate US companies she's herself worked for However except for France everyone seems to find this normal 🤷♂"
X Link 2023-07-18T22:54Z 183.6K followers, 94.9K engagements
""Chinese Scientists Are Leaving the United States. Its absolutely devastating so many of the researchers that the United States depends on in the advanced technology field are from China" The backlash of anti-China hysteria"
X Link 2023-07-15T02:04Z 183K followers, 178.7K engagements
"Climbing Tianchi mountain (also called Paektu) which belongs to both China and North Korea. There's a volcano crater lake up there that in Korean mythology is the birthplace of the Korean people. Sadly it's very foggy so not sure we'll be able to see it 😅"
X Link 2023-07-15T06:25Z 329.3K followers, 35.1K engagements
""Some question her story" Yes anyone with an ounce of common sense who hasn't been so brainwashed they can't distinguish obvious lies anymore"
X Link 2023-07-20T01:45Z 183.5K followers, 87.5K engagements
"This is insane gaslighting. This year alone China will install twice the solar capacity than the US has installed in its entire history. And I'm not even speaking about wind turbines nuclear stations electric cars etc. The truth is that China takes more "significant"
X Link 2023-07-17T07:33Z 183.8K followers, 469.8K engagements
"You often see people exercise with a whip in public parks in China. It's actually quite a good exercise for the upper body"
X Link 2023-07-17T03:55Z 183.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV trip in Northern China Today we drove from ErDaoBaiHe to Tumen a border town with North Korea. I wouldn't be surprised if I was the first foreigner certainly the first European who drove a RV to this place There are of course many Korean ethnic"
X Link 2023-07-17T11:36Z 183.4K followers, 37.8K engagements
"On the way during our RV road trip around Northern China we just drove alongside the China-North Korean border (delimited by the Tumen river). Across Tumen city in China we could see a North Korean town and a railway bridge that links both countries"
X Link 2023-07-17T10:48Z 329.5K followers, 13.3K engagements
"I see so many churches in this area of northwestern China (like this one I just saw in Yanji) basically every town seems to have one. My guess is that it's because it an area with a large Korean ethnic population and they're majoritarily Christian"
X Link 2023-07-19T02:55Z 183K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Make it make sense: yesterday Jake Sullivan bashed China because it didn't take "significant substantial action" on renewables and today John Kerry hailed China's "incredible job" on renewables 🤷♂"
X Link 2023-07-19T07:42Z 183.4K followers, 70K engagements
"One of China's favorite leisure activities: dress up in traditional clothes and go to an ancient touristic site to take pictures. Like here in Anji Jilin province where people dress up like old Korean royalty to visit "MingZu Yuan" a park that re-creates traditional Chinese"
X Link 2023-07-19T18:17Z 182.5K followers, 26.2K engagements
"A perfect example of this is the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act" by the US which forbids the import of any product from Xinjiang. Little problem: half the world's polysilicon the base material for solar panels comes from Xinjiang. So this act alone almost"
X Link 2023-07-19T20:43Z 183.7K followers, 39.8K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northern China Today we drove from Yanji to Changchun the capital of Jilin province. The main reason we came here is to visit the last palace of Pu Yi the last emperor of China. The palace's official name is "the imperial palace museum of the puppet manchurian state" because Pu Yi infamously resided here when he allied himself with the Japanese invaders who had established the "Manchukuo" puppet state in North East China. Let's visit the place"
X Link 2023-07-20T05:19Z 254.2K followers, 90.9K engagements
""The tectonics of the trans-Himalayan relationship are shifting. Recent border bloodshed suggests mounting hostility. But blossoming economic ties tell a different story that could trouble America." The Economist admitting peace is troubling for the US"
X Link 2023-07-21T04:09Z 183.5K followers, 24.5K engagements
"Pierre Rosanvallon probably the greatest living expert on democracy says a democracy has [--] essential elements: 1) that those who govern truly represent the people 2) that there's trust by the people in those who govern them 3) that the decisions taken by those who govern are"
X Link 2023-07-22T18:15Z 183.3K followers, 172.4K engagements
"Chip war update: not enough skilled workers in the US to build A SINGLE plant"
X Link 2023-07-24T01:49Z 182.5K followers, 19.4K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China Today we drove from Harbin to the outskirts of Qiqihaer. We came here to visit a natural reserve with the highest red-crowned crane (a magnificent bird) population in the world. We arrived at 5pm so a bit late to visit the"
X Link 2023-07-31T11:29Z 183.6K followers, 23K engagements
"Western leaders would do well to study the Yin Yang theory: if you develop the Yin of NATO in Asia you'll inevitably get an opposing Yang response"
X Link 2023-07-25T06:29Z [--] followers, 17.5K engagements
"Ola Kaellenius CEO of Mercedes-Benz emphasizes the importance of China for the company describing it as a "home away from home". In other unrelated news Annalena Baerbock has been admitted to the emergency room for an acute cardiac arrest 😏"
X Link 2023-07-28T16:12Z 150.1K followers, 12K engagements
"The biggest lesson here is on the extraordinary influence of US government policy on public opinions. The data couldn't be clearer: it is in [----] when Trump decided to start the "trade war" stop engagement with China and start a confrontational policy (all continued by Biden)"
X Link 2023-07-29T02:27Z 164K followers, 92.3K engagements
"@shetlerjones They form opinion based on what the media tell them to think and what Western media have been writing on China for a few years has been overwhelmingly negative driven by stories that originated in the US predominantly by the US government"
X Link 2023-07-29T07:17Z 183.5K followers, [---] engagements
"100% misinformation. I've been driving for years everywhere in China (actually I'm currently on my third week of a road trip in the Northeast) and I've never encountered this. Heck I've never encountered this "social credit score" that these people keep speaking about either"
X Link 2023-07-30T11:39Z 182.9K followers, 229.9K engagements
"Quite embarrassing: Blinken and Lloyd Austin went to Australia to participate to a large scale joint US-Australia military exercise. which ended when a MRH-90 helicopter crashed into the ocean leaving four crew members missing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/29/australia-us-taipan-helicopter-crash/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/29/australia-us-taipan-helicopter-crash/"
X Link 2023-07-30T01:58Z 252.4K followers, 63.8K engagements
"Absolutely incredible experience yesterday during our RV road trip in Northeast China: we were lucky enough to spend the evening and the night in the forest with some of the last reindeer-raising Ewengkis. There are less than [---] of them remaining in the country (there are about"
X Link 2023-07-31T09:33Z 130.3K followers, 86.7K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and we've now reached Erguna county on the border with Russia. the home of the most unusual minority ethnic group in China: Chinese Russians They look Russian follow Russian customs but they speak Chinese with a Northeast"
X Link 2023-07-31T11:00Z 130.4K followers, 214.4K engagements
"This is a job that probably only exists in China: itinerant honey seller who move around with their bees depending on the season. This is in Inner Mongolia where this particular seller spends his summers. We asked him and he moves [--] to [--] times a year chasing flowers typically ending up in Yunnan during the winters. There are actually quite a few of these honey sellers in the Chinese countryside: if you are in a place with many flowers at a given moment you're more likely than not to see some We bought a big 1kg pot of honey for RMB [--] (about $7). Some of the best honey I've ever tried"
X Link 2023-07-31T10:18Z 207.6K followers, 187K engagements
"The French approach vs the British approach 🤭 Who does better in the end: those who don't fear competition and partnerships or those who do 🤔"
X Link 2023-07-31T16:49Z 155K followers, 14.6K engagements
""NATOs expansion into Asia is the mother of bad ideas. NATO merely expanding further and further into eastern Europe was a subject of controversy. All of a sudden the alliance is pushing to leap into Asia and theres hardly even a debate""
X Link 2023-08-01T06:00Z 136.9K followers, 18.2K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and we're now literally at the border with Russia on the Argun river having driven all the way from the border with North Korea [--] weeks ago. Interestingly this place is also the location of the world's largest Ying-Yang"
X Link 2023-08-01T06:25Z 183.7K followers, 18.1K engagements
"We're currently visiting a farm in China and I think it's VERY far from how people would typically imagine a Chinese farm to be. This is maybe the 30th or so farm that I visit in China and my consistent experience has been that the degree of care and the quality is insanely high"
X Link 2023-08-01T18:50Z 183.1K followers, 127.6K engagements
"Believe it or not this is the border between China and Russia. Undoubtedly one of the most scenic borderlands in the world. We're driving between Shiwei and Heitoushan in Inner Mongolia alongside the Argun river which delimits the border between both countries. And it's all"
X Link 2023-08-02T09:24Z 183.5K followers, 196.7K engagements
"Want to see what an amusement park in Inner Mongolia looks like Like this 😊"
X Link 2023-08-02T08:38Z 183.1K followers, 15.2K engagements
"Absolutely extraordinary for the CEO of the US's largest weapons manufacturer to publicly advocate for the US and China to "get along". That actually makes me somewhat optimistic if he's being honest (a very big if)"
X Link 2023-08-02T16:52Z 182.9K followers, 57.6K engagements
"There you go: WSJ admits sanctions failed to significantly dent Russia's economy. Give it a few more months and they'll admit that not only they failed but were counterproductive: damaging Europe's economy more than Russia's. Or was that the objective 🤔 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-attacked-russias-economy-the-result-is-another-stalemate-99ec913b https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-attacked-russias-economy-the-result-is-another-stalemate-99ec913b"
X Link 2023-08-04T02:48Z 268.3K followers, 67K engagements
"Seen just now in Zhalai Nuo'Er on the Chinese border with Russia. This is actually very interesting. I've now been on China's borders with quite a few countries (Russia Mongolia N. Korea Myanmar Laos etc.) and it's a common pattern: the culture of the bordering country is celebrated with buildings in the country's style museums about the country's culture restaurants with the country's food countless shows about the country's traditions etc. And it's immensely popular: literally millions of Chinese tourists travel to these places to learn about their neighbors. We've been to a good half a"
X Link 2023-08-04T06:01Z 158.5K followers, 231K engagements
"At this stage Australia should consider applying to be the 51st state"
X Link 2023-08-04T07:29Z 183.7K followers, 31.8K engagements
"This is common sense but sadly it looks like the US has already decided containing China is more important than climate change. They funnily try to tell China "collaborate with us on climate change while we otherwise try to destroy you" and then blame China for being like "wait"
X Link 2023-08-05T06:55Z 183.5K followers, 27.2K engagements
"She's doing her very best to become the personnification of what's worst with American politicis: looking for an external ennemy blaming foreigners for America's problems appalling racism etc"
X Link 2023-08-05T11:11Z 182.9K followers, 77.6K engagements
"One especially significant aspect here is that if that goes through US taxpayers would be funding arms supply to Taiwan for the first time as opposed to Taiwan buying the weapons. The justification being that this "has been so successful in Ukraine" 🤦♂"
X Link 2023-08-05T15:34Z 183.4K followers, 16K engagements
"Incredible numbers: "Nearly [-----] scientists of Chinese descent who began their careers in the US have left for other countries with an accelerated departure rate in the last [--] years coinciding with the launch of the China Initiative in 2018""
X Link 2023-08-05T15:47Z 182.9K followers, 117K engagements
"Former national board member of the Australia China Business Council: "Australia military integrationwith the US has made it a client state of the US. Australiais now a by-product of US policy rather than as a relatively independent entity.""
X Link 2023-08-06T01:06Z 183.8K followers, 22.2K engagements
"This is absolutely hilarious: Rishi Sunak inaugurated a 4bn "India-UK" battery factory with Tata but. looks like all the battery technology is provided by Chinese firm AESC which they tried to keep secret 🤭"
X Link 2023-08-06T02:12Z 183K followers, 91.1K engagements
"Wow exceptionally strong words from a key South Korean lawmaker who chaired a ruling party committee on South Koreas semiconductor competitiveness until early this year: If Washington continues to try to punish other nations and to pass bills and implement America First policies in an unpredictable manner other countries could form an alliance against the US. The US should consider more of humanitys common values. Appearing to use its strength as a weapon is not desirable. The more the US sanctions China the harder China will try to make rapid technological progress. China will provide more"
X Link 2023-08-06T15:29Z 183.6K followers, 488.3K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and we're in a very special place: Kanjur Temple one of the main Tibetan Buddhism temples in this region. Many people probably don't know this but Tibetan Buddhism since the Yuan dynasty is a very widespread religion among ethnic Mongols. This place is incredibly remote so barely any tourists ever come here it's pretty much only locals and monks. One interesting particularity of this place besides that it's stunning with [--] temples inside is that it's also full of old Japanese bunkers lying around. The reason is because during the Japanese"
X Link 2023-08-07T06:43Z 134.6K followers, 11.8K engagements
"Remember folks: when the West sends warships patrolling near the Chinese coastline on a near daily basis it's "freedom of navigation exercises" - nothing to see there - but when China or Russia do it it's "highly provocative""
X Link 2023-08-07T06:45Z 183.4K followers, 212.5K engagements
"We spending the night in the most important WW2 historical site you've never heard of: Nomonhan (also known as the site of the battles of Khalkhin Gol) where the Soviet Union defeated Japan in [----] which changed the course of the war. Japan and Nazi Germany may have won WW2 were it not for the battles that happened right here during [---] days. Incredibly this episode of the war is virtually untaught in the West maybe because it didn't involve the West (which shows how self-centered our version of history is). During WW2 Northeast of China had been invaded and annexed by Japan transformed into"
X Link 2023-08-07T15:06Z 130.7K followers, 196.9K engagements
"Indian media being their usual honest selves trying to make people believe antisemitism is rampant in China (which couldn't be further from the truth) by making up quotes from Israeli researchers"
X Link 2023-08-07T15:21Z 183.1K followers, 11.2K engagements
"Interesting choice of picture for your main title today @guardian. Often propaganda isn't obvious in-your-face "you must hate China" articles but small and seemingly innocuous editorial choices like this unconsciously making the connection between "China" and "bad news" 😢"
X Link 2023-08-08T01:45Z 183.3K followers, 21.2K engagements
"This is actually raises interesting questions: almost immediately after someone wrote China's core values on a wall in London ("prosperity" "civility" "harmony" etc.) it was erased and covered up with right-think anti-China political slogans (references to Tiananmen etc.) by "activists". The Guardian cites one of the "activists" a Taiwan born lady called Mary: I didnt know the original intention of the artist but at least I can explain the second layer of what people added which shows that Chinese people still have some agency Actually I would argue it shows quite the opposite: that people in"
X Link 2023-08-08T02:22Z 183.8K followers, 134.2K engagements
"WaPo: "Taken from their homes Native American children were forced to attend Indian boarding schools as part of an effort by the federal government to wipe out their languages and culture." When they accuse others it's almost always projection"
X Link 2023-08-08T02:33Z 182.9K followers, 26.6K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and we might just be staring at the cutest train station in China 😊 We're in Arshan - in Inner Mongolia quite close to the border with Mongolia - a city with a very peculiar architecture style. This particular train station was built in [----] and is still active"
X Link 2023-08-08T07:28Z 164K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Yesterday as we approached the Mongolian border I got my passport controlled which was the first time any of my paperwork got controlled in [--] days of non-stop driving in China (which ought to tell you how much of a "police state" China actually is.) When the soldier saw I was French he said "wow this is the first time we see a French person around here" which is funny but also quite sad in way it really shouldn't be the case. Discovering China and trying to understand it the real China outside the main touristic destinations should be encouraged in Europe. Even if China is seen by many as an"
X Link 2023-08-08T16:09Z 183.3K followers, 186K engagements
"Wow. Just wow. That's absolutely appalling. They've really decided to emulate Ukraine in just about every way haven't they Even in their rehabilitation of WW2 collaborators"
X Link 2023-08-09T07:11Z 152.6K followers, 151.5K engagements
"Interesting read The 2020s "Chinese spy" is the 2000s "Muslim terrorist" manufacturing consent by racializing the threat"
X Link 2023-08-09T16:16Z 183.6K followers, 19.7K engagements
"Biden: "Let me be direct about the competition between the United States and China. The United States will conduct itself as a reasonable leader. We do not seek a Cold War. We do not ask any nation to choose between the United States or any other partner." Really 🤦♂"
X Link 2023-08-09T16:36Z 183.6K followers, 48.1K engagements
"You haven't lived until you've seen 100s of horses running together to the sound of Mongolian rock music in the grassland. We spent the day yesterday in Wulanmaodu Inner Mongolia China watching a naadam a traditional Mongolian festival. And wow it was quite a sight 😮"
X Link 2023-08-10T01:46Z 183.7K followers, 51.9K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China Today we visited Gegen temple in Ulanhot which I believe is the largest Tibetan Buddhism temple in Inner Mongolia. Stunning place A temple built on a hill with [---] steps to get to the top. We went from the bottom"
X Link 2023-08-11T01:19Z 183.2K followers, 27K engagements
"Wow that's insane 😦 Biden on China's economy: "They've got some problems. That's not good because when bad folks have problems they do bad things". So China is now "bad folks" Don't people realize just how irresponsible this kind of rhetoric is from an American president"
X Link 2023-08-11T04:51Z 138.1K followers, 142.9K engagements
"Epic dinner tonight in a restaurant in a small town called Faku in Liaoning province. Beijing duck with homemade pancakes cabbage with peanut sauce tofu skin with meat glass noodles with pork belly diced potatoes fried duck carcass. We are FULL 😅"
X Link 2023-08-11T09:49Z 137.7K followers, 17K engagements
"This is where we're parked for the night: right next to the 1000-year old Liao dynasty "white crane tower" in Faku Liaoning province. Obviously it's been restored to its former glory (and lighting has been added) but at 52m incredible they could build something like this back then"
X Link 2023-08-11T11:45Z 183.6K followers, 54.8K engagements
"Yet another report riddled with obvious disinformation by Safeguard Defenders the same "NGO" that brought you the "Secret Chinese police stations". One of the silliest and most egregious one is this screenshot of a conversation which they claim is the Chinese police contacting a Uyghur in Turkey and which they apparently think is such an important piece of evidence that they included it on [--] different pages of the report (out of 16). Small problem: one can't have "unknown" numbers on Whatsapp (let alone one with a policeman profile pic 🤦♂) you're always at least shown the phone number. And"
X Link 2023-08-11T15:15Z 135.7K followers, 39.7K engagements
"Denis Simon a professor at the University of North Carolina resigned from his post because of the ambient sinophobia and his interview is worth a read. He makes the point that cutting off ties with China especially in academia will be to the U.S.'s detriment: not only will it mean that the US will understand China less and less (a threat to the US in and of itself) but it could also result in the US falling behind China technologically as they won't get as many Chinese scientists (who are going back to China en masse) and won't get abreast of China's progress as is normally the case through"
X Link 2023-08-11T15:53Z 183K followers, 70.1K engagements
"Remember when the West absolutely lost it at the mere suggestion that China would have a security agreement with the Solomon islands The US is "considering security guarantees for [--] Pacific Island nations". Where is the outrage"
X Link 2023-08-12T01:05Z 136.2K followers, 16.8K engagements
"This is really disgusting. And then you wonder why the Global South wants to build a new world order. The current one shamefully and openly seeks to hold their development back"
X Link 2023-08-12T01:10Z 183.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating article in @AmericanAffrs that looks at public opinion research in China and the [--] "surprises" it reveals: 1) The Tiananmen protests in [----] was not a "pro-democracy" movement but an anti-reform movement"
X Link 2023-08-12T01:31Z 141.9K followers, 48K engagements
"Saying the quiet part out loud: "others are dying to help achieve our geopolitical objectives and WE GET PAID for the privilege" I hate to say it but if one looks at it cynically he's right. It's us Europeans who are undescribably stupid for falling for this"
X Link 2023-08-12T02:48Z 183.4K followers, 28K engagements
"This is day [--] of our RV road trip in Northeast China and today we're in for a huge treat: we're visiting the official winery of the Qing imperial family (Aisin-Gioro) established in the Liao dynasty. This is in Faku Liaoning province. EXTRAORDINARILY charming place truly Watch the video as I discover the compound"
X Link 2023-08-12T03:20Z 289.9K followers, 11.4K engagements
"All the "despair" metrics in the US are in the deep deep red. Factually the American population is suffering very badly. It shouldn't be cause for rejoice but an opportunity to show Americans the harm they do to themselves and to the world and that dramatic change is needed"
X Link 2023-08-12T06:02Z 183.3K followers, 21.1K engagements
"We're now in a very special farm in Liaoning province called "Tanbo Art Kingdom" where they make drawings in rice fields out of different varieties of rice. Extremely cute place"
X Link 2023-08-12T06:23Z 183.4K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Let's not forget that when KMT lost the civil war it was a military dictatorship (which is largely why they lost they were hated by the population which much favored the Communists) a regime type which they perpetuated in Taiwan until [----]. So had they won the civil war this is likely what they'd have sought to impose on the whole of China which would have been absolutely impossible to sustain on such a large population. This means that what would have probably happened is what typically happens in Chinese history when a regime is disliked by the population: more civil war chaos and China"
X Link 2023-08-12T15:37Z 183.2K followers, 78.7K engagements
"Why on earth would it share it 🤦♂ Are we now doing "China bad because it respects data privacy" 😅"
X Link 2023-08-12T16:40Z 183.1K followers, 34.3K engagements
"Chip war update: US chip industry tells Biden to stop restricting their access "to the China market the worlds largest commercial market for commodity semiconductor". Designed to kill China's chip industry it boosts it and weakens America's 🤷♂"
X Link 2023-08-13T01:32Z 182.9K followers, 19.1K engagements
"Next time you hear the US blabbering about the "rules based order" you might want to refer to this report just issued by China's Ministry of Commerce. For the first time they've compiled the myriads of ways in which the US violated international trade law whether it was by "undermining the multilateral trading rules imposing unilateral sanctions manipulating double standards in industrial policies and disturbing global industrial and supply chains" or in general "taking unilateral measures against other members under the guise of so-called 'national security' 'human rights' and 'forced"
X Link 2023-08-13T02:05Z 182.9K followers, 499.2K engagements
"@baoshaoshan And sadly will be slandered as Chinese propaganda even though it's all 100% fact based. Such is the world we live in 😢"
X Link 2023-08-13T04:31Z 268.3K followers, 23.6K engagements
"@Davidpa97558507 Or powerful countries could think long-term try to go beyond "might makes right" and put a fair system in place in which all of humanity can thrive"
X Link 2023-08-13T04:34Z 183.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"French media are hilarious. Whatever China scaremongering story is published in the US you can be 100% sure that a few months afterwards they'll do the very same story translated and adapted to France. Today in Le Figaro: "Investigation on China raiding French farmland" [--] year after the American version 🤦♂ Even though in both cases we're speaking about such ridiculously small amounts of farmland that it's totally inconsequential. Also it's not "China" buying the land but private individuals who happen to be Chinese"
X Link 2023-08-13T05:03Z 183K followers, 22.8K engagements
"Day [--]. We visit Zhalong National Nature Reserve the world's biggest reserve for red-crowned cranes a magnificent bird )"
X Link 2023-08-13T16:33Z 183K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Day [--]. We drive a long road to Hailar the main town in Inner Mongolia's famous Hulunbuir grassland. We join a Mongolian party as we arrive in the evening )"
X Link 2023-08-13T16:34Z 164K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--]. We attend a Naadam a traditional Mongolian festival ). It was a truly unique event with 100s of horses running in the grassland Mongolian wrestling a fantastic Mongolian concert etc"
X Link 2023-08-13T16:41Z 183.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--]. We go back to the naadam in the morning to attend a Mongolian dairy competition and taste horse yogurt for the first time ) and we then drive to Gegen temple the biggest Tibetan Buddhism temple in Inner Mongolia )"
X Link 2023-08-13T16:42Z 183.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--]. We're back to Shenyang to give back the RV 😭 Thanks to everyone who followed us during our journey. Hopefully we've been able to show you a somewhat different image of China than the one you're typically shown"
X Link 2023-08-13T16:44Z 183.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow Chinas July automobile exports jump 63% helping extend the lead over Japan as the worlds biggest vehicle-exporting economy. Local Chinese brand made up 80% of the exports"
X Link 2023-08-14T01:05Z 182.9K followers, 50.8K engagements
"That's why China already won Seen just now at 8.30pm on an August Monday night in a mall in Shenyang. The kids look no more than 7-8 years old and here they are learning to code a program in python that asks people to set their password"
X Link 2023-08-14T12:58Z 183.8K followers, 250K engagements
"A story I always tell is that when you go to villages in rural France you always have monuments to honor the village's youths who died at war. When you go to villages in China you have monuments to honor the village's youths who passed the Keju exam (the ancestor of the Gaokao). This says an awful lot"
X Link 2023-08-14T16:06Z 183.1K followers, 394.9K engagements
"Yet another top scientist of Chinese descent leaves the US for China after being investigated McCarthy-style for "China ties". Kunliang Guan is one of the most cited researchers in the field of biochemistry and a recipient of a MacArthur genius award"
X Link 2023-08-15T02:14Z 183.2K followers, 94.5K engagements
"They should build a monument to both Biden and Trump with "Thank you for your invaluable contribution to Chinese scientific progress" 😄"
X Link 2023-08-15T02:57Z 183.1K followers, 10.1K engagements
"China and it's not even close. The diversity of the cuisines and ingredients in China - and the extreme level of refinement of some of the dishes - simply has no other parallel. Sadly you can only really experience it in China. Chinese restaurants abroad most often have very little to do with what you can find in China"
X Link 2023-08-15T05:57Z 183K followers, 142.2K engagements
"Today in Shenyang we're visiting the former home of Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang. Zhang Zuolin used to be the richest man in China and the most powerful man in the Northeast during China's "warlord era" in the beginning of the 20th century until he was killed by the Japanese. Enraged his son Xueliang reunified the Northeast with the rest of China and proceeded to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek during the famous "Xi'an incident" in [----] because he was frustrated by his policy of "first internal pacification (i.e fight Mao's Communists) then external resistance" and forced him to agree to"
X Link 2023-08-15T06:45Z 183.5K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Now visiting Zhongjie ("Middle street") Shenyang's famous commercial pedestrian street and actually historically China's very first commercial pedestrian street People keep saying that China's economy isn't doing well but whenever we go into commercial areas like this it's always absolutely full packed with people. So anecdotal evidence tells me it's not doing too bad"
X Link 2023-08-15T09:04Z 183.8K followers, 17.6K engagements
"@FreedomMaxima I've seen times when people were actually not spending during Zero Covid totally different vibe today. Also when I was traveling every tourist site was packed: tourism is the first type of discretionary expense people should cut if they were struggling and they aren't"
X Link 2023-08-15T13:24Z 229.3K followers, [---] engagements
"More seriously try living an upper middle income family lifestyle in Shanghai or other large cities: [--] bedroom apartment private or international school and activity classes for the kids cleaning lady a few times a week or full time ayi a couple of holdidays a year etc. You'll find out that what you need to pay for this today is a good 20% higher than even [--] years ago. I'd love for prices to be falling but I just don't see it 🤷♂"
X Link 2023-08-15T14:27Z 183.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Long time followers will know that the RV road trip we just finished in Northeast China was actually our 2nd such road trip in China. We did another one [--] years ago in the middle of Zero Covid which in many ways was even more epic Since it ended somewhat abruptly (see below) I never got a chance to write a retrospective. So here you go a 🧵 thread with the highlights of our [----] RV road trip"
X Link 2023-08-15T15:54Z 164K followers, 139K engagements
"Day [--] July 26th [----]. We drive from Zhengzhou Henan province (where we rented the RV) to Luoyang to see the famous Longmen Grottoes"
X Link 2023-08-15T15:55Z 250.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Day [--]. From Longmen we drive to Xi'an in Shaanxi province to see - what else - the world famous Qin terracotta army We spend the night right next to the site in the front yard of a local farmer"
X Link 2023-08-15T15:56Z 250.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is a genuinely hilarious story: Janet Yellen inadvertently ate hallucinogenic mushrooms during her latest trip in China 😅"
X Link 2023-08-16T01:57Z 183.6K followers, 35.8K engagements
"Wow even the WSJ now acknowledges that all the sinophobia and cutting of ties with China in academia might be hurting the US much more than it does China. US policy makers have a backward understanding of who benefits from Chinese collaboration"
X Link 2023-08-16T16:13Z 163K followers, 16K engagements
""The U.S. depends more heavily on China than China does on the U.S. in some strategic areas according to an analysis by Clarivate of studies in respected journals shared exclusively with The Wall Street Journal. Between [----] and [----] U.S.-China collaborations accounted for 27% of U.S.-based scientists high-quality research in nanoscience for example but only 13% of China-based scientists. The gap in telecommunications was even wider with collaborations accounting for 10% of Chinas output but more than 33% of the U.S.s. More than a dozen U.S.-based scientists interviewed by the Journal"
X Link 2023-08-16T16:19Z 183.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Why is it always former politicians who dare state the obvious Sarkozy says Europe "needs Russia" and should seek a compromise with it with Ukraine "staying neutral" and not joining NATO nor the EU"
X Link 2023-08-17T01:17Z 183.5K followers, 126.8K engagements
"Could we maybe consider having politicians say and do the right WHILE IN OFFICE It is after all the same Sarkozy who at the [----] NATO Bucharest summit agreed to language stating Ukraine "will become member of NATO" which in many ways started this all mess"
X Link 2023-08-17T01:45Z 183.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The most interesting part of our RV road trip in China this summer isn't actually what we saw but what we DIDN'T see. Here it is: 1) We didn't see any trace of this mythical "social credit score" (which means I still haven't seen any in 10+ years of traveling and living in China.). 2) We didn't see any homelessness nor did we see any extreme poverty despite traveling in some of the less developed parts of rural China. We of course saw a lot of folks that were obviously not well off - China is still on average a poorer country than the West - but no-one living in slums or begging on the"
X Link 2023-08-17T07:31Z 183.6K followers, 486.5K engagements
"This was unexpected: for our last few hours in Shenyang we visited the "Shenyang Science Centrum" and it turned out to be the single best science museum I've seen in my life (and I think I've been to 50+ around the world including those with the reputation to be the best in San Francisco London Paris etc.) It's massive on [--] floors with hundreds of "experiments" kids can make around many themes (physics maths biology space etc.) all extremely well explained and entirely free"
X Link 2023-08-17T08:21Z 268.4K followers, 33.1K engagements
"What a great deal: pay for the privilege of losing your sovereignty. Literally dereliction of duty to sign up your country to this. In statecraft nothing is more important than preserving your country's sovereignty. Mind-blowing there aren't more people seeing it"
X Link 2023-08-17T08:49Z 183.5K followers, 15.1K engagements
""Free and fair" elections when the elected (anti-American) PM was ousted - under the documented encouragement of the US - and is now in jail. I remain in awe of Blinken's cynicism and capacity for Orwellian doublespeak"
X Link 2023-08-18T00:58Z [--] followers, 101K engagements
"EV batteries from China "face scrutiny under US law on Chinese forced labor" Quite a strange coincidence that they always seem to find "forced labor" in critical industries where they can't compete against China 🤔 Almost as if it was a BS excuse"
X Link 2023-08-18T01:25Z 183.1K followers, [----] engagements
"We're discovering Chengdu's Tianfu airport one of the newest airports in China. Many open-air courtyards with bamboo forests which is a very nice touch"
X Link 2023-08-18T03:49Z 182.9K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Fascinating study published by Cambridge University Press on the opposition between international law and the "rules based order" and how the latter undermines the former. Very glad to see it: just months ago this was considered a "tankie" argument"
X Link 2023-08-18T04:56Z 136.9K followers, 50.7K engagements
"If you did a focus group with Western youths on one side and Chinese on the other I'm pretty damn sure the most "disenchanted and full angst" ones wouldn't be the Chinese. In fact they'd look incredibly hopeful and optimistic in comparison It's all relative"
X Link 2023-08-18T05:23Z 183.3K followers, 55K engagements
"Big brain time. If I got his argument right from all the incoherence he says "leftards" (which he defines as "all the collectivists") are "shit" because they don't let people think differently so therefore "you can't give them an inch" or "negociate" with them effectively meaning he himself refuses people who think differently i.e. the very thing he hates about "leftards" 🤡"
X Link 2023-08-18T16:20Z 146.3K followers, 56.6K engagements
"Tired of the ridiculous "everyone I disagree with is a Chinese agent". And unlike you with your China-bashing YouTube grift I'm never earned a single cent from tweeting (or giving interviews to the Chinese press for that matter which isn't "working for Chinese state media"). I have no "role" I just like China (the people the culture the food the whole lot) and I hate the anti-China hysteria and fear mongering so prevalent in our messed up world (and which you've made a business out of) so I tweet my views and experience in China to restore a tad of sanity and balance. It doesn't make me a"
X Link 2023-08-18T17:48Z 182.9K followers, 107.9K engagements
"Why would I start criticizing China too when 99.99% of the commentary of China out there does just that What would be the point of adding to that incredibly loud chorus I don't pretend to be fair. I'm 100% biased. And so is everyone else by the way just the other way around. The whole point of my tweeting about China is like I wrote above to offer a counterview to the overwhelming negativity and hatred. To show there also is an enormous amount to love about China. I don't pretend that China is perfect I've never claimed that. But I absolutely admit proudly and rationally that I focus on the"
X Link 2023-08-18T18:20Z 183.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Interesting article by Nicholas Lardy perhaps the most esteemed Western expert on China's economy: "A careful reading of the present situation does not support the view that China's growth is now gripped by a severe cyclical downward spiral.""
X Link 2023-08-19T02:57Z 183.6K followers, 27.8K engagements
"Interesting write up on why SK's current rapprochement with Japan is likely unsustainable because led by president Yoon who "doesn't care" about what the South Korean people think about the rapprochement (they hate it) or its consequences. Not surprising he's so loved in Washington"
X Link 2023-08-19T05:47Z 182.9K followers, 15.4K engagements
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